Team Herald
MARGAO: Colva Police late last night traced and arrested two of the four persons involved in the murder of Samuel alias Rahul Soren and the duo have confessed to the crime but the reason why the young native of Assam was murdered is not yet known.
Police Inspector Filomeno Costa said the duo was telling different stories and the exact cause of the murder is not known. However, he did not rule out the possibility of an illicit relationship being the cause nor did he rule out the possibility of the duo being invited to the house with plan to kill Samuel.
The two arrested are 25-year-old Pradeep Hora and 23-year-old Safar Khan both natives of Jharkhand who were living at Santemol Raia. Based on the various telephone numbers the police had got traced the location of one at Raia.
Around 12 police personnel from Colva and Maina Curtorim police stations led by PI Filomeno and DySP Raju Raut Dessai began combing operations at Santemol Raia yesterday evening and following a disclosure from one of the locals, Pradeep and Safar were found in a room.
The two have confessed to the crime and reportedly told that the mandible was fractured when his face was smashed to the floor. They also kicked his chest and genitals and even sat on the chest causing fractures of the sternum and ribs and one of them pressed the throat with fists totally destroying the throat inside without any sign or mark on the outside. The body was reportedly buried in the night.
Police are now on the lookout for Magna Gopi alias Suraj and his wife Etna Devi who are the other two involved in the murder. Suraj apparently has taken the scooter and mobile belonging to Samuel.
PI Filomeno was all praise and thankful to Dr Pannog Kumar who helped them in retrieving the body from where it was buried and also conducted the post mortem along with Dr Sunil Chimulkar.
