Teen finds mom slain, then runs into killer

Teen finds mom slain, then runs into killer

FPJ BureauUpdated: Saturday, June 01, 2019, 06:46 AM IST
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Mumbai : A 13-year-old school girl returned home on Tuesday afternoon to get the shock of her life when she found her mother lying in a pool of blood and the alleged murderer stuffing his loot in a plastic bag in the   bedroom.

“The victim is big time bookie Sonu Jalan’s live-in partner Shagufta Khan. They had been living together for 15 years,” said Assistant Commissioner of Police, Crime Branch, Sunil Deshmukh. The incident took place in the afternoon when the alleged accused, identified as Guddu, slit her throat at her posh residence in a high-rise in the Orlem locality of Malad West.

A mother of two, Shagufta was alone at her sixth floor residence in the ‘C’ wing of the Rustomjee Riviera building when the murderer came calling. Since both were known to each other she let him enter without protest.

It was after one-and-a-half-year that Guddu was meeting Shagufta. He had previously come to meet her along with a woman, a common friend of theirs. On Tuesday, he came to meet her a little before 3 pm with the ostensible motive of robbery; he killed her using a kitchen-knife.

“The bedroom’s door was ajar, which the elder daughter pushed open, only to find a man with a knife in his hand stuffing a plastic bag with gold jewellery. Guddu saw her and quickly got out of the house with the bag without touching her,” said ACP, Goregaon division, Uttam Khairmode. The girl had been dropped at the building from school, along with her younger sister by the family’s driver at 3.05 pm.

After Guddu left, the elder daughter called Jalan on his mobile: he is in Australia since October 30. Jalan instructed her to call the driver to the house. While the child was going through this ordeal, her seven-year-old sister, terrified at the turn of events, had hid herself in the bathroom.

After summoning the driver, the elder daughter informed Jalan’s mother who lives in the same building; after that the police was called. The police have got the CCTV footage of Guddu, who used to work in a mobile shop and is an auto rickshaw driver.

Who is Sonu Jalan?

Sonu Yogendra Jalan is a bookie who was arrested in an IPL betting and fixing case in 2012. Jalan had then told the police that he had paid a Sri Lankan player Rs 10 crore to fix an IPL match. He was arrested by the Property Cell of the Crime Branch from Lokhandwala. During investigation, the police found that Jalan, along with another bookie, had a turnover of around Rs 500 crores a month. It was also revealed that Jalan and his partners had clients in countries such as Pakistan, South Africa, Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia, besides many cities in India.

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