Did friends kill teenage boy over distribution of KBC prize money?
   Date :20-Sep-2020

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Special Correspondent ;
 
UNIT-IV of Crime Branch claimed to have cracked the murder mystery of a teenage boy, who was brutally killed by his two friends in Wathoda area, after putting them behind bars on Friday night. The murder, cops claimed, was a fall-out of dispute between the friends over distribution of prize money supposed to be received by the deceased from popular show Kaun Banega Crorepati (KBC). The accused have been identified as Imtiyaz Ali Mukhtar Ali (21), a resident of Tajbag, and Sheikh Asim Sheikh Rasheed (24), a resident of Gausiya Colony, Hudkeshwar.
 
A resident of Plot No. 193, New Nehru Nagar, Yash Madhukar Thakre (19) received a call from the accused on Friday evening. They asked him to come near Senapati Nagar ground. Around 5.50 pm, Yash reached the spot on his bike. Imtiyaz Ali and Sheikh Asim picked a quarrel with Yash. Sheikh Asim then took out a sharp-edged weapon and stabbed Yash repeatedly injuring him seriously. After Yash collapsed, they fled the spot. A profusely bleeding Yash was rushed to Government Medical College & Hospital but on the way he succumbed to his injuries.
 
A team of Unit-IV of Crime Branch swung into action after getting information about the incident. The team visited Yash’s house after coming to know about his alleged involvement in one of the cases registered under Sections 395, 336, 504 and 506 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) at Hudkeshwar Police Station. Yash, Imtiyaz Ali and Sheikh Asim often used to consume ecstasy drug pills, it was learnt. Crime Branch officers claimed that his family members informed them that Yash was receiving calls from popular TV show Kaun Banega Crorepati for the past 4-5 days and was to get some prize money. When Imtiyaz and Sheikh Asim came to know about the prize money, they never used to leave Yash alone.
 
The probe also revealed that Imtiyaz Ali and Sheikh Asim had an eye on the prize money and quarrelled with Yash allegedly after consuming the drug pills. After heated arguments with Yash, they killed him with sharp-edged weapons. ASI Battulal Pande, one of the team members, got information that Imtiyaz and Sheikh Asim were hiding at Bakramandi in Mominpura.
 
The team visited Mominpura, surrounded the accused duo and nabbed them. After taking Imtiyaz and Sheikh Asim into custody, the Crime Branch later handed them over to Wathoda Police who registered a case under Sections 302 and 34 of the IPC against them. The accused youths were nabbed by Senior PI Ashok Meshram, API Kiran Chaugule, ASI Battulal Pande and others under the supervision of Add. CP (Crime) Nilesh Bharne and DCP (Detection) Gajanan Rajmane.