JAYPRAKASH S NAIDU Mumbai
It is now come to light that Karankumar Kakkad ( 28), a businessman who went missing from his rented Lokhandwala flat on March 5, is a bookie who accepted bets on Indian Premiere League ( IPL) cricket matc
hes for the last three years.
Kakkad came to Mumbai from Delhi to get easy access to his customers and changed his residences frequently to evade arrest.
The police are now probing if Kakkad used Simran Sood as a bait ( 34) for players to fix IPL matches. Simran met celebrities and cricketers while working for an event management company and her Face Book profile has these photographs.
These include actors Kay Kay Menon, Neil Nitin Mukesh and Australian cricketers.
However, the police have not ascertained whether Kakkad misused Simran or the latter was the one who alt39 trappedalt39 him.
Meanwhile, the BMW car that was traced to the residence of Palandes aide Rahul Mane has been sent to the forensic laboratory.
The car had Kakkads laptop, which he may have used for accepting bets, an I- Pad, gold and silver valuables and some cash.
Palande had met Kakad through Simran, a struggling . Kakad, Simran and Palande lived in different flats at Oberoi Springs Tower in Lokhandwala.
The police have stated that Palande and Dhananjay Shinde, a co- accused in the Lokhandwala senior citizen murder case had driven Kakad to Kondhwa in Pune, where the left the car at Rahul Manes residence.
Mane is the brother- inlaw of advocate Harshad Nimbalkar who once bailed Palande in a previous crime case.
Mane told officials that the duo left the car stating that, ” There is no place to park car in Mumbai”. Mane will be interrogated further to see if he has a role to play in the Kakkads abduction.
On Monday, the police confirmed that Vijay Palande, the main accused in the senior citizen murder case, confessed to murdering Kakkad. According to sources, Palande threw the body after cutting it into multiple pieces in Kumbharli Ghat in Chiplun, Ratnagiri district.
The police, who have found a skull and some parts of the body, are now depending on a DNA test to ascertain if it is Kakkads body. Another team in Amboli came across another body that was stuffed in a gunny bag and thrown on the road near Khandala. The police have ruled out that it is Kakkads body.
The police are now probing if Kakkad used Simran Sood as a bait for players to fix Indian Premier League matches Palande confesses to murdering Kakkad
