Surat: Overdependence on electronic surveillance at the cost of human intelligence, which earlier used to play pivotal role in criminal investigation, has come to hurt the police again. Police have not been able to detect Dindoli double murder case even after a month of recovery of the bodies on May 19 because they don’t have CCTV footage, mobile phone-simcard location or call data record. Despite their best efforts, teams from Dindoli police station, detection of crime branch (DCB) and special operation group (SOG) remain clueless and are unsure if the murdered woman and the boy were related since Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) is yet to give its DNA comparison report to them.
For some reasons, cases of unidentified murdered bodies found from Dindoli had remained undetected. Rape and murder of a seven-year-old girl whose body was found hanging from a wall in C R Patil Nagar in December 2011 remains undetected. The case pertaining to mutilated body of a woman in her undergarments found stuffed in a travel bag in Dindoli in December 2014 also remains undetected.
Cops had found the bodies of a woman, 25, and a boy, 5, in a plastic bag at Saniya village near Iklera crossroads under Dindoli police station limits on May 19. The bodies were recovered from a farm located on the outskirts of the city where there was no CCTV coverage. The bodies were highly decomposed and doctors after post-mortem told police that the victims may have been killed 15 days ago.
“Police are unable to finalize a time period to collect locations of mobile towers because exact date when the victims were killed is not known. Information about the time of the victims’ death could have helped detect the crime,” a police officer said.
“Several teams of police are working to detect Dindoli double murder case. We have been unable to solve it so far. We are sure of cracking the case,” city police commissioner Satish Sharma said.
File photo of the spot in Dindoli where woman’s body was recovered