Three held after Palghar Police identifies dead body using his finger prints

The Palghar Police in Maharashtra have solved a murder case with the help of the deceased`s finger print that helped investigators to establish his identity and later arrest three accused from Hyderabad.

Mokhada Police had registered a First Information Report (FIR) after they recovered an unknown body of a man near Vaitarna river on February 3. There were a few tattoos on both his hands and near his thumb.

“It was an absolutely blind case as some unknown people had dumped the body near Vaitarna river. We recovered the body and filed an FIR under sections 302 (murder) and 201 (disappearance of evidence) of IPC,” said Pradeep Gite, the in-charge of Mokhada Police station told mid-day.

The body was identified as Deepak Dhoke, who was the resident of Ulhasnagar. The 25-year-old Dhoke was an unauthorised vendor who would sell water bottles at Kalyan railway station, said police.

“His killers Pentya Chittari, 38, Saikumar Kadamachi, 22, and Kishore Shettye 29 are also unauthorised vendors at the same railway station. They had a fight with Dhoke last year when a case was registered against the deceased,” said Gite.