THANE: A 61-year-old Mumbra resident, who had achieved the homicide of a lookalike to escape prison for more than one crimes, was convicted by the district periods court here on Thursday in the case and sentenced to life. He was earlier acquitted in the 2003 blasts case.
District Judge H M Patwardhan convicted Sayeed Kadri for the homicide of scrap dealer Wahab Bhangarwala alias Julfikar Umarkhan.
“Uncle” as Kadri was identified in prison had presumed that the one approach to escape prison was to faux his personal demise to persuade the prison machinery to near the instances in opposition to him and then shift base somewhere else.
Accordingly, he identified Bhangarwala, who reportedly resembled him in peak and built, and took him to his tenement at Ashiyana Cooperative Housing Society in Mira Road on August 15, 2003. When the two have been in the tenement, he killed and beheaded Bhangarwala.
“He poured an inflammable liquid on the body and burnt it. He then went to Bhayander creek the place he flung the top and the weapons he had used. Kadri’s members of the family confirmed to the police that it was his body and accordingly he was declared dead,” Sanjay Londhe, district government pleader, advised TOI.
Later, Kadri modified his identification and worked with an ENT surgeon in Malegaon till he was picked by the police in 2010.
The prosecutor advised the court that the accused had dedicated a henious offence and deserved punishment. The prosecution examined as many as 17 witnesses, together with half a dozen investigation officers, to prove the crime in opposition to Kadri.
The court relied on the deposition of the prosecution witnesses and according to circumstantial proof convicted and sentenced Kadri.
District Judge H M Patwardhan convicted Sayeed Kadri for the homicide of scrap dealer Wahab Bhangarwala alias Julfikar Umarkhan.
“Uncle” as Kadri was identified in prison had presumed that the one approach to escape prison was to faux his personal demise to persuade the prison machinery to near the instances in opposition to him and then shift base somewhere else.
Accordingly, he identified Bhangarwala, who reportedly resembled him in peak and built, and took him to his tenement at Ashiyana Cooperative Housing Society in Mira Road on August 15, 2003. When the two have been in the tenement, he killed and beheaded Bhangarwala.
“He poured an inflammable liquid on the body and burnt it. He then went to Bhayander creek the place he flung the top and the weapons he had used. Kadri’s members of the family confirmed to the police that it was his body and accordingly he was declared dead,” Sanjay Londhe, district government pleader, advised TOI.
Later, Kadri modified his identification and worked with an ENT surgeon in Malegaon till he was picked by the police in 2010.
The prosecutor advised the court that the accused had dedicated a henious offence and deserved punishment. The prosecution examined as many as 17 witnesses, together with half a dozen investigation officers, to prove the crime in opposition to Kadri.
The court relied on the deposition of the prosecution witnesses and according to circumstantial proof convicted and sentenced Kadri.
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