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PONDA
A youth hailing fr Gadag-Karnataka but presently residing at Curti-Ponda was on Friday arrested on charges of abducting and murdering a 17-year-old migrant girl from Ponda.
According to reports, the girl’s family had filed a complaint with Ponda police on Thursday regarding the disappearance of the girl and her body was found on Friday morning near a water tank at Baithakhol-Borim.
Ponda police rounded up some suspects and later gained access to CCTV footage indicating that the accused, Mansoor Hussain Shaik (22), who has a small shoe shop in Ponda, had taken the girl on his scooter.
Police then arrested Shaik and he reportedly confessed to the murder of
the girl.
According to police, Shaik and the girl were earlier involved in an affair but had later ended their relationship. When Shaik found out that the girl having an affair with another youth, he decided to take revenge.
When the girl was going to the Ponda Sub District Hospital for a checkup, he took her on his scooter and allegedly strangulated her.
Shaik has been arrested in this connection and will be produced before a court on Saturday.
Ponda PI Mohan Gawde is investigating the case.
