Trust the Delhi Police to botch up what seems to be an elementary and straightforward murder investigation, though three days have elapsed since the highly decomposed body of a British national was found in the national capital's Bhogal area, the Delhi police is yet to make any headway in the case........
According to Delhi Police sources auto drivers, roadside petty traders and other such intrepid businessmen who set up their stalls in the bustling Bhogal market 365 days a year have been exhaustively and intensively questioned, but the questioning proved to be a damp squib as the police was unable to extract any such information that would point them in the right direction..........
The highly decomposed body of a British national which was wrapped in a plastic bag was initially spotted by rag pickers right opposite a spare parts store that was located right next to a rubbish dump in the national capital's Bhogal area, the rag pickers immediately notified a passing by PCR van about the same and hence started the whole conundrum........
According to the investigating officer, CCTV footage from all the cameras stationed or located within the Bhogal market area has been obtained for the day in question and the day preceding it, police personnel are minutely perusing the same in order to establish how the British national arrived on the scene........
In addition to the said CCTV footage, the concerned police personnel are also minutely scrutinising the CCTV footage obtained from the national capital's railway stations, international and domestic airports and bus terminus so that they can conclusively establish when the British national who has since been identified as one Roddick Andrew Raymond (40) arrived in the national capital and also whether or not he was in the company of family and friends.........
A mangled and mutilated passport recovered from the pocket of the jeans that the decomposed body was clad in helped the police establish his credentials and the flummoxed and bewildered Bhogal police sleuths have also written to the immigration department requesting them to duly inform his kith and kin about the sorry incident as well as provide some urgently required information about his antecedents...........
All that has been conclusively established thus far is the fact that Mr. Raymond arrived in India on a tourist visa somewhere around mid February 2014 and that he had visited Chennai, Mumbai and Goa before arriving in the national capital, but what remains to be established are the facts pertaining to his exact date of arrival in the national capital and his whereabouts in the same.........
Prima facie it seems to be a case of cold blooded murder, the investigating officer reveals and goes on to disclose that the investigators are thoroughly probing whether the murder was a case of a robbery gone wrong or then some other sinister motives could be imputed to it........
"What seems to be evident is the fact that the murder was committed elsewhere and the body was callously and cold bloodedly dumped in the location where it was found in order to confuse and obfuscate the investigators and the decomposed state of the body alludes to the fact that the murder was committed at least 3-4 days before the body was dumped", the investigating officer reveals........
"We are doing all we can to trace the British national's still missing mobile phone and have also asked mobile service providers to help us in our quest as the same instrument would prove to be immensely beneficial in establishing the movements of the murdered person and shed further light on his last living moments", the hapless police officer signs off........
Will the Delhi police sleuths ultimately succeed in solving a murder case that is currently causing them sleepless nights or then will this also go down as one more addition to the already burgeoning figure of unsolved crimes, well your guess is as good as mine on this one........
According to Delhi Police sources auto drivers, roadside petty traders and other such intrepid businessmen who set up their stalls in the bustling Bhogal market 365 days a year have been exhaustively and intensively questioned, but the questioning proved to be a damp squib as the police was unable to extract any such information that would point them in the right direction..........
The highly decomposed body of a British national which was wrapped in a plastic bag was initially spotted by rag pickers right opposite a spare parts store that was located right next to a rubbish dump in the national capital's Bhogal area, the rag pickers immediately notified a passing by PCR van about the same and hence started the whole conundrum........
According to the investigating officer, CCTV footage from all the cameras stationed or located within the Bhogal market area has been obtained for the day in question and the day preceding it, police personnel are minutely perusing the same in order to establish how the British national arrived on the scene........
In addition to the said CCTV footage, the concerned police personnel are also minutely scrutinising the CCTV footage obtained from the national capital's railway stations, international and domestic airports and bus terminus so that they can conclusively establish when the British national who has since been identified as one Roddick Andrew Raymond (40) arrived in the national capital and also whether or not he was in the company of family and friends.........
A mangled and mutilated passport recovered from the pocket of the jeans that the decomposed body was clad in helped the police establish his credentials and the flummoxed and bewildered Bhogal police sleuths have also written to the immigration department requesting them to duly inform his kith and kin about the sorry incident as well as provide some urgently required information about his antecedents...........
All that has been conclusively established thus far is the fact that Mr. Raymond arrived in India on a tourist visa somewhere around mid February 2014 and that he had visited Chennai, Mumbai and Goa before arriving in the national capital, but what remains to be established are the facts pertaining to his exact date of arrival in the national capital and his whereabouts in the same.........
Prima facie it seems to be a case of cold blooded murder, the investigating officer reveals and goes on to disclose that the investigators are thoroughly probing whether the murder was a case of a robbery gone wrong or then some other sinister motives could be imputed to it........
"What seems to be evident is the fact that the murder was committed elsewhere and the body was callously and cold bloodedly dumped in the location where it was found in order to confuse and obfuscate the investigators and the decomposed state of the body alludes to the fact that the murder was committed at least 3-4 days before the body was dumped", the investigating officer reveals........
"We are doing all we can to trace the British national's still missing mobile phone and have also asked mobile service providers to help us in our quest as the same instrument would prove to be immensely beneficial in establishing the movements of the murdered person and shed further light on his last living moments", the hapless police officer signs off........
Will the Delhi police sleuths ultimately succeed in solving a murder case that is currently causing them sleepless nights or then will this also go down as one more addition to the already burgeoning figure of unsolved crimes, well your guess is as good as mine on this one........
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