Accused Shraddha Dubey, driver Danish and Rashmi Dubey
Nagpur: Eleven days after a 27-year-old Lucknow cafe owner, Shiva Sharma , died after falling off the fourth floor of an upscale apartment in the Uttar Pradesh capital, a joint team of Nagpur crime branch and Lucknow police arrested Sharma’s live-in partner, Shraddha Dubey, her sister Rashmi Dubey and their driver Adil from Chinchbhuvan here on Tuesday. After searching 12 locations with internet-based location inputs and CCTV footage, police traced the trio to a rented flat on the 11th floor of an apartment in Chinchbhuvan on Nagpur outskirts. Police teams searched 12 locations, including Gaddigodam and Chinchbhuvan, while tracking the suspects on CCTV and GPS inputs. After zeroing in on the 11-storied flat Chinchbhuvan bridge, police kept the premises under surveillance for nearly 24 hours.
“Investigators examined footage from around 250 cameras to establish the e-rickshaw’s route,” said ACP Vaibhav Jadhav, adding three crime branch teams were formed. The vehicle was last traced on CCTV in Chinchbhuvan, helping police identify the apartment where the trio was hiding. Investigators also found that Shraddha’s driver and co-accused, Adil, was using his mobile phone to make bookings and coordinate movements. A team from Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) later joined the operation, and the three suspects were taken into custody.
The mission kicked off after Lucknow police commissioner made a call to Nagpur commissioner Vishwas Nangare Patil on Monday evening and shared the registration number and location details of the vehicle used by suspects. “An Uttar Pradesh police team reached Monday and another touched down on Wednesday.
Shraddha and Rashmi allegedly relied on the driver’s phone instead of using their own devices, making the digital trail an important part of the investigation, said a source.