THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Almost 17 years after the kidnapping and homicide of Shyamal Mandal, an engineering pupil, a CBI particular court docket right here on Tuesday discovered an accused within the case responsible. Mohammed Ali, hailing from Andaman and Nicobar islands is the one who was discovered responsible.
He's the second accused within the case and a household pal of the sufferer. The court docket will pronounce the sentence on Wednesday.
The case pertains to the kidnapping and homicide of Mandal, a pupil of Faculty of Engineering, Trivandrum, in 2005. Hailing from Andaman and Nicobar islands, Mandal was reported lacking on October 13, 2005. Ali, with the assistance of his pal Durga Jeg Bahadur kidnapped Mandal after calling him on telephone pretending as a pal from Andaman and Nicobar and requesting to satisfy at East Fort. Within the following days, they contacted Mandal's father Basudev Mandal over telephone and demanded a ransom of Rs 20 lakh. After negotiations the ransom was lowered to Rs 10 lakh, which Basudev Mandal deposited in a checking account as per the instructions of the accused. Nonetheless, on October 24, 2005, Shyamal Mandal's physique was present in a sack deserted amongst bushes close to Kovalam. He was apparently killed by his throat slit.
The case was initially probed by the native police. In 2008, it was handed over to the CBI after Basudev Mandal approached the Kerala Excessive Courtroom in search of a probe by a superior investigation company. The CBI sleuths tracked down and arrested Ali by probing the transactions of the checking account by which the ransom quantity was deposited. Additionally they arrested one other man, Kesav Kumar Katwal, together with Ali. Katwal, who occurred to be a pal of Bahadur, was arrested after the investigators discovered Mandal's telephone in his possession. Later, it was revealed that he was harmless, and he purchased the telephone from Ali unaware of the crime. The investigators additionally came upon that the accused had murdered Mandal quickly after he was kidnapped and it was after that they contacted his father demanding ransom.
The prosecution case was that Ali deliberate and executed the crime to extract cash from Basudev Mandal. Ali knew that Mandal, regardless of being a faculty instructor, was into the enterprise of cash lending and had large quantities of cash.
The findings of CBI group had been additionally just like that of native police. They accomplished the probe and submitted chargesheet in 2010. The trial obtained delayed after the case was transferred to the CBI particular court docket in Thiruvananthapuram established in 2012.