Double murder inside showroom in broad day light in city; Murdered to commit robbery: accused reveals during police interrogation
TMI
Bureau
Port
Blair, March 29: Two women murdered inside the Damro Furniture showroom at Middle
Point in broad day light has sent a shock wave in the city.
TWO ACCUSED
News Report:
On
March 28, 2019, the killer/s slit the throats and stabbed the Two women (Padma Priya, 22 yrs, R/o Garacharma and Rosecynthia, 31 yrs, R/o Shadipur) and killed
them before fleeing from the spot. While one victim died on the spot, another
succumbed to her injuries at GB Pant Hospital. The unfortunate incident took
place around 3.30 pm.
As
per sources, one of the two women is learnt to have been murdered inside the
Damro showroom located on the first floor, above the Prince Bajaj showroom. The
second woman happened to climb up to the first floor for some work and to her
horror witnessed the murder taking place. Acting swiftly, the killer/s killed
her too so as not to leave any evidence behind. The CCTV camera installed
inside the showroom is also learnt to have been damaged by the killer/s.
A case
of murder, vide FIR No.199/19 dated 28/03/19 u/s 302 IPC was registered at PS
Aberdeen and the investigation was taken up by SHO Aberdeen, Insp. Sanjay
Kumar.
However,
Andaman & Nicobar police solved a murder case within 10 hours, the Police
teams made all relentless efforts to nab the accused person and conducted a
massive search in the Port Blair area, involving more than 100 police personnel
from all the units and finally at late night (0100 hrs of 29/03/2019) the
Police team nabbed both the accused persons namely Shubhankar Ghosh (21 yrs)
and Debashish Roy (22 yrs) along with recovery of case property.
Victims’
Relatives Aggression:
The
scene at GB Pant Hospital was quite heart rending. A large crowd of relatives
and friends of the deceased had gathered there. The parents were inconsolable. Bodies
of the two women have been kept inside the mortuary. A company IRBn has been
deployed outside the hospital to deal with any eventuality.
The
anger among public doubled, when a Police team brought both the accused
Shubhankar Ghosh and Debashish Roy to GB Pant Hospital for medical check-up on
March 29, 2019 afternoon. As per sources, relatives, friends of both victims
and general public present their demanded the police to handover the both accused
to the public for ‘Mob Justice’.
The police
after finding difficult to control the mob and hence they had to lock both the
accused in a safe room for their protection. However, they controlled the
public and finally took the accused youths back to police station from another
route.
Police
Report:
“During
the course of investigation, information from the local sources was collected
and all the CCTV cameras of the area were checked. From the investigation, the
accused persons were identified as Shubhankar Ghosh S/o Shri Sayantan Ghosh, 21
yrs R/o Garacharma and Debasis Roy S/o Shri Bijan Roy, 22 yrs R/o Garacharma.
The Police teams made all relentless efforts to nab the accused person and
conducted a massive in search in the Port Blair area, involving more than 70
police personnel from all the units and finally at about 0100 hrs the Police
team nabbed both the accused persons”, said the Director General of Police,
Deependra Pathak, IPS addressing a press conference held on March 29, 2019
evening at the Police Headquarters.
Explaining
the details of the case, Pathak said that the motif behind the crime was
Robbery. One of the accused Shubhankar Ghosh basically hailing from West Bengal
used to work in Damro Furniture Showroom and was removed from his job in
November 2018. Shubhankar along with Debashish Roy, a permanent inhabitant of
the islands had plot a plan to rob some money from the showroom. Shubhankar
knew well about the Showroom and chose a time when he knew that there were
minimum people in the showroom and a good collection of cash.
Shubhankar
and his accomplice Debashish entered the showroom with all preparation to
commit robbery. In order to commit robbery, they killed the two lady staffs that
were already present in the showroom and escaped from there with some cash.
The
DG Police further explained that the victim was pushed 4-5 meters away from the
CCTV coverage area and then attacked. The modus operandi of the crime disclosed
that the two accused changed their clothes two times, wore gloves etc. learning
it from Crime Serials shown in TV.
Dependra
Pathak also explained that the A&N Police in order to bring the youth away
from misdemeanour are in discussion with the A&N Administration to have
skill development courses so that the youth are involved in productive
activities and are able to contribute constructively to the society.
Police
teams comprised:
Teams
under the supervision of Insp. Sanjay Kumar led by SI Jeevan, SI Dev Raju and
ASI Sanjay Yadav from PS Aberdeen, ASI Radha Krishnan with other staff from PS
Pahargaon, SI Manoj Lall and other staff from PS Chatham, Insp. D. Jagdishwar
Rao and other staff from Special Branch and Insp. Mahesh Yadav and other staff
from Central Crime Station were formed and a massive hunt for the accused
persons was launched.
The
whole investigation took place under the guidance of SDPO/SA Sh. Nishant Gupta
under the overall supervision of SP (D) South Andaman Shri Deepak Yadav, IPS.
Advice:
The
public is requested to share information with Police in full confidence so that
such anti-social elements are brought to justice and they may pass on such
information to 03192-232100, 03192-232400 and 9434288673. The informant will be
suitably rewarded and his/her identity will be kept secret.
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