Anuhya Case: Search on for 'Key Player'

After Mumbai police detained some suspects in 23-year-old software engineer Anuhya’s rape and murder case, a special team, which has been constituted, is searching for a ‘key person’ for his alleged role in the kidnap, sexual assault and murder of the victim. The investigation team found that the key person’s mobile number remained switched off for a long time. A day after Mumbai police commissioner Satyapal Singh said that they had detained some suspects in connection with Anuhya’s case, Mumbai police have intensified their probe.The police have obtained some leads in the case after a thorough interrogation of the suspects. Highly placed sources told Express that the initial probe has revealed that the victim was kidnapped, assaulted sexually and murdered by a group of people. The victim, however, was murdered somewhere else in Mumbai and the body was dumped in an isolated place near the National Highway in Kanjurmarg police limits. After the investigating teams collected some inputs from suspects, the police are searching for a ‘key person’ involved in the offence. “If we find the whereabouts of the key person, the case will be cracked,” the sources said. A team of Mumbai police would visit Machilipatnam, the native place of the victim, shortly to record the statements of her parents, Kanjurmarg senior police inspector Nishikanth Viswanath Tungare told Express. The team is likely to interact with the AP Railway police who registered an FIR in connection with the missing of the woman. “We investigate the case from all angles to nab the culprits. We have obtained some leads after questioning more than 400 auto/cab drivers in various places including Lokmanya Tilak Terminus (LTT), Kanjurmarg, Bhandup and Kamatipura localities. The case will be cracked by nabbing the remaining accused shortly,” a Mumbai police officer said. The victim’s father, Singavarapu Jonathan Surendra Prasad, who met Union home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde, AAP leader Yogendra Yadav, CPM Politburo member Brinda Karat and some others, and submitted representations, has returned to Machilipatnam.

By Moule Mareedu
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