Pune: A discarded SIM card tray found near a garbage heap helped Sangvi police crack the alleged murder of a man whose severed legs were found stuffed in a gunny sack in Pimple Gurav on Friday, leading to the arrest of a 44-year-old man.
3 in Pimple Gurav. Sangvi police registered a case on Saturday under sections 103(1) (murder) and 238 (causing the disappearance of evidence) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
“When officers visited Khade’s residence, his wife and children told them that he had not visited home for the past two years. They gave us a few names,” the police said. One of them told us that Khade was staying with a new friend,” the police said. We subsequently arrested Kumbhar,” he said.
Relevant provisions of the Arms Act have also been invoked in the case. A team led by senior inspector Jitendra Koli of Sangvi police station traced details linked to the SIM card tray. We then asked them about his friends. “We traced his friends. “During a search of the house, we found Khade’s torso. We shifted the torso to the hospital. Police suspect that the two argued over liquor, following which Kumbhar allegedly assaulted Khade with a baseball bat, which killed him. He then allegedly used a billhook to chop off his legs, packed them in a gunny sack and dumped it near the garbage heap.
The incident came to light around 11am on Friday when severed human legs were found in a gunny sack near a garbage heap on Shrinagar Lane No.
It then led to the arrest of the suspect, Pintya alias Vishnu Tanaji Kumbhar (44) of Navi Sangvi. During the investigation, police analysed CCTV footage and conducted a technical examination of a SIM card cover found at the spot, which helped identify the victim as Anil Baban Khade, a daily wage worker from Pimple Gurav.