As police dig deeper into the advocate Harun Paleja homicide case, officers made the second arrest from the outskirts of Jamnagar Thursday. Sekundar Saicha is the brother of gangster Razak Saicha, the important thing accused.
Sekundar’s arrest comes a day after an area court docket despatched one other accused, Bashir Saicha, to seven days in police remand.
On March 13, Paleja was allegedly intercepted by a bunch of males in Bedi and stabbed to loss of life. Primarily based on a grievance filed by Paleja’s nephew Noormamad, Bashir Saicha, Sekundar Saicha, Imran Saicha, who can also be Razak’s brother, and 12 others had been booked for homicide, prison conspiracy, and rioting. Noormamad had stated within the grievance that the accused didn’t like Harun Paleja showing in court docket on behalf of the household of a trainer who died by suicide final yr attributable to alleged sexual harassment by Razak and others. Razak was arrested in that case and is in judicial custody.
Sekundar was nabbed by Jamnagar Police when he went to the residence of certainly one of his family members on the outskirts of the town, inspector Nikunjsinh Chavda, who’s investigating officer (IO), stated. “…we had been sustaining a vigil there. As quickly as he arrived on the spot, he was nabbed by our group” Chavda, who’s a part of the Particular Investigation Workforce (SIT) fashioned by Jamnagar SP Premsukh Delu to analyze the case, stated.
In the meantime, a magisterial court docket in Jamnagar Wednesday despatched Bashir to seven days of police custody. A resident of the Bedi space of Jamnagar metropolis, Bashir (32) was arrested by the Native Crime Department from Balambha in Jodiya Tuesday. Jayvirsinh Zala, Deputy Superintendent of Police of Jamnagar division who’s supervising the SIT, stated Bashir is a relative of Razak Saicha, a history-sheeter and “chief of the Saicha gang of Jamnagar”.
“Bashir is Razak’s cousin and was current on the spot when advocate Paleja was assaulted,” Zala stated, including, “Bashir’s interrogation has revealed that the Saichas harboured a notion that Paleja was accountable for all of the litigations they had been dealing with and due to this fact, they murdered him.”
Chavda stated that Bashir, who runs a automobile service station within the Bedi space, is an confederate of Sekundar and Imran. The IO additionally stated {that a} bike and a pipe Bashir had used whereas assaulting Paleja in addition to the garments he was sporting on the time of committing crime have been recovered.