The voluminous chargesheet being carried to the Margao court on Monday. Santosh Mirajkar
MARGAO
The Crime Branch on Monday filed a chargesheet in the September 2 cold-blooded murder of young city-jeweller Swapnil Walke with the investigation agency asserting that the accused had hatched a conspiracy to murder the deceased jeweller with the sole intention of committing murder and robbery at Krishni jewellers, Margao.
The voluminous chargesheet, runs over 1200 documents, which includes the statements of the witnesses, panchanama documents et al. The crime branch has cited around 113 witnesses in support of its case, including 10-11 eye witnesses, who had seen the accused fleeing from Krishni Jewellers after committing the offense.
While accused Mustafa Sheikh, Evander Rodrigues and Omkar Patil has been charged under section 302 of the IPC for murder, attempt to commit robbery (398), destruction of evidence (201) and criminal conspiracy (120-B) of the IPC, besides provisions of the Arms Act, the three accused from Bihar Kundan Kumar, Shani Kumar and Rahul Kumar have been charged under various provisions of the Arms Act.
A glance at the brief facts of the chargesheet states that the accused Mustafa Shaikh, Evender Rodrigues and Omkar Patil had hatched the criminal conspiracy to eliminate owner of Krishni Jewellers Swapnil Walke by procuring illegal country made pistols of 7.65 caliber bore from accused Kundan Kumar with the assistance of accused Rahul Kumar and Shani Kumar, the natives of Bihar.
As part of the conspiracy, accused Mustafa Sheikh, Evander Rodrigues and Omkar Patil used illegal pistol and fired on the victim on September 2 and stabbed him with a knife with the sole intention of committing murder and robbery. Due to resistance by the victim, however, the accused failed to commit robbery, the chargesheet stated.
“Taking into account in holistic and logical perspective the entire gamut of evidence collected during the course of investigation submitted herewith in the form of statements of witnesses, supplementary statements of witnesses, report of TI parade, documents collected from various agencies, travel details, call details, CAF of the SIM card holders, attachments of vehicles used in crime and materials collected from the scene of crime, it is revealed that, accused persons Mustafa Sheikh, Evander Rodrigues and Omkar Patil hatched criminal conspiracy and procured illegal country made pistol of 7.65 caliber with ammunition from accused persons from Bihar”, the chargesheet stated.
Investigation revealed that, accused Evander Rodrigues, Mustafa Shaikh and Omkar Patil hatched a criminal conspiracy to commit murder of owner of Krishni Jewellery shop situated behind Grace Church, Margao and to loot the entire jewellary from the shop.
Further investigation revealed that, the knife used in the commission of crime was stolen from one of the houses at Siridao in the last week of August 2020. Statement of PSI Sagun Sawant, attached to Agacaim Police Station is on record.
Call details of accused 1) Omkar Patil having cell No. 8698220335 2)Mustafa Shaikh having cell No. 7757031644, 3) Evander Rodrigues having cell No. 7522947571, 4) Shani Kumar having cell No.
9308141053, 5) Rahul Kumar having cell No. 7061708328 and 6) Kundan Kumar having cell No. 9905224248 have been obtained from the concerned service providers which confirms the movements of the accused persons during the relevant time of procurement of arm and commission of crime.
