After break-in at uncle’s home, youth kills aide to divert probe

Express News Service
KOCHI: A housebreaking. A wedding. And a homicide. The sequence of occasions had the makings of against the law thriller with the police nabbing the 4 accused inside 48-hours of a charred physique being discovered close to a railway monitor at Pulleppady in Kochi. It turned out that the mastermind of the theft-and-murder — Dinoy Christo, 24, who was arrested together with three others on Thursday — set ablaze certainly one of his aides to destroy proof of the housebreaking at his uncle’s home a day earlier than his sister’s marriage on January 1. 

The story begins on the night of December 31 when Dinoy’s uncle and household had been at his house in Thoppumpady, on the eve of his sister’s marriage. The five-member gang, together with Dinoy, figuring out that his relations is not going to return until daybreak, broke into his uncle’s house in Elamakkara and decamped with 127 sovereigns of gold ornaments.  When the police arrived there to gather proof after the theft, Dinoy, the nephew, was current on the burgled home. “From that time, he was under our scanner,” an officer stated.From the positioning, they managed to get the fingerprints of Joby, 19, one of many gang members. 

Both Dinoy and Joby had been requested to look on the Elamakkara police station at 11am on Wednesday. Dinoy arrived on the station alone.  Around the identical time Pulleppady residents reported to the Central station {that a} charred physique was mendacity close to the railway tracks. During quizzing, Dinoy confessed to the crime, the police stated.  

Most jewelry recovered

“The police collected fingerprints from the site of the theft and summoned Dinoy and Joby for interrogation. Dinoy wore gloves during the theft while Joby didn’t. Hence, Dinoy directed him to go into hiding but he didn’t obey. Dinoy murdered Joby to prevent the police reaching him,” an officer stated.

The police stated Dinoy set Joby’s physique ablaze after hammering him to demise. The different gang members arrested are Haris V aka Sulu, 34, a transgender hailing from Tirur in Malappuram, Manilal aka Surya, 19, of Kannamaly, and Pradeep, 25, of Punalur. 

“Dinoy and Joby drank from a bar in the city on Tuesday night. Dinoy then took him to a secluded area near the railway track and killed him. Dinoy confessed to the murder,” stated City Police Commissioner H Nagaraju.The three different accused had been concerned within the theft and offered help to Dinoy to promote the loot. The police recovered a majority of the gold ornaments. Dinoy bought jewelry value Rs 2.5 lakh at a jewelry store in Malappuram, Rs 1.5 lakh of which was recovered from him.Interestingly, Dinoy’s uncle, whose home was burgled, had donated Rs 5 lakh for his sister’s marriage.