Labourer murdered, body burnt in Karmad industrial area; two UP men arrested

A labourer was brutally murdered and his body burnt in the Karmad industrial area, which falls under the Shendra MIDC and DMIC region of Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar. Karmad police have arrested two accused from Uttar Pradesh in the case.

According to the police, the accused have confessed that they killed the man by beating him with an iron pipe and cement bricks. The police also said the body was then put in a chamber and set on fire.

The case began with a complaint from Vishal Bhaskar Khule (32), a resident of Goltgaon. He filed it at Karmad police station on October 24. His uncle, Indrajit Baburao Khule (51), had left home at around 6 pm on October 23 and then went missing. The complainant had asked the police to trace him. On this basis, a kidnapping case was registered at Karmad police station.

During the investigation, information given by a witness, Chandrakant Baburao Khule, revealed that some men had taken Indrajit Khule to Plot No. 5 in C-5 of the Karmad industrial area. He was killed there. The kidnapping probe thus led to the murder.

Two accused were named in the investigation. One is Priyam Virendrasingh Kushwah (19), a resident of Shambharpurwa in Tirwa tehsil of Kannauj district, Uttar Pradesh. The other is Ravi Asaram Kushwah (21), a resident of Thathia in Kannauj district. A team of Karmad police and the Local Crime Branch went to Uttar Pradesh, searched for the two, took them into custody and arrested them.

Another accused in the case, Rishabh Shrivastava, is absconding. A police team has left for Uttar Pradesh to look for him. He has not yet been arrested.