MAN WHO KILLED teacher on train sent TO 14-day custody
MUMBAI, Jan. 31 -- Twenty-seven-year-old Omkar Shinde, arrested for the fatal stabbing of 33-year-old NM College lecturer Alok Singh, aboard a Mumbai local train has been remanded in judicial custody for 14 days, after the Government Railway Police (GRP) told a court it had gathered sufficient evidence in the case.
Shinde, arrested by the Borivali GRP on Sunday, was produced before a magistrate on Friday. Police said they did not seek further custodial interrogation as they had already recovered the alleged murder weapon, the clothes worn by the accused at the time of the incident, and CCTV footage linked to the crime.
The defence, however, questioned the strength of the prosecution's case. Advocate Yashawant Patil argued that the GRP had initially registered the offence against an unidentified person and was relying on a single eyewitness who had not seen the assailant clearly. Patil told the court that the witness only stated that the victim had said he was stabbed by "someone", without clearly identifying Shinde as the attacker.
"The only eyewitness did not even get a proper look at the accused. Since Shinde's face has now been widely shown in newspapers and on television channels, any test identification parade would be meaningless," Patil submitted.
Datta Khuperkar, senior police inspector of the Borivali railway police station, said, "We are appealing to passengers who were present in the local train at the time of the incident to come forward and record their statements."...
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