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Verna police achieved a breakthrough in the murder case at Verna IDC by arresting the prime accused at Malim jetty within 24 hours of the crime.
South Goa SP Arvind Gawas has announced a Rs 5,000 cash prize to the entire Verna police team for their quick detection in the murder case.
On Monday evening, 27-year-old labourer Roshan Uron from Jharkhand was found lying in a pool of blood on a bed in a rood at a site under construction in Verna.
Briefing media persons on Tuesday, Mormugao DySP Sunita Sawant said there were 7 labourers residing
in the room at the construction site.
"Five of them had left for shopping as it was a holiday, while the deceased was present in the room with another labourer, Vinay Kerketta, who is also from Jharkand, and who went missing after the murder."
"The other labourers had seen Kerketta running towards a bus near the Titan junction, but had not realized that he had committed a murder," said DySP Sawant.
On their return to the room at about 6.30 pm, they found Unor murdered with the left side of his head smashed and alerted their contractor, Dataaprasad Mandrekar, who in turn, reported the matter to the owner of the site, DySP Sawant added.
The labourers then contacted a relative of the deceased, who is employed as a helper in Raia, before the matter was finally reported to Verna police at around 9.30 pm, nearly three hours after the body was found in the room.
Verna police immediately suspected Kerketta to have been involved in the murder, as other roommates had stated that there were constant brawls between Unor and Kerketta.
Verna police was then on the lookout for Kerketta, who had fled with his clothes and belongings from the site after the crime.
DySP Sawant said investigations led police to trace Kerketta at Malim jetty on Tuesday evening, where he was placed under arrest by a Verna police team.
DySP Sawant added that the accused confessed to the crime and told police that incident had taken place in anger to seek revenge, after Unor had beaten assaulted him three days earlier.
The police team investigated the case under the supervision of Verna PI
Ninad Devulkar and Mormugao PI Sailesh Narvekar, under the guidance of DySP Sawant.
