A 37-year-old girl’s physique was exhumed in Kerala on Thursday two years after she was discovered useless in Abu Dhabi alongside along with her employer days after a Particular Investigation Staff (SIT) discovered the involvement of a gang of their murders, which have been handed off as suicide.
TP Harris, the employer, was discovered useless together with his wrist slit whereas Densi Antony was suffocated to dying. The UAE Police concluded Harris killed Antony earlier than dying by suicide.
The household of Antony, a mom of three, was first informed she died in an accident, and later her dying was attributed to cardiac arrest. Antony’s physique was later flown to Kerala for burial. Harris’s physique was earlier exhumed and despatched for forensic investigation final week.
Harris and Antony’s deaths got here below the highlight when the SIT discovered clues in regards to the gang’s involvement in them whereas probing the homicide of Mysuru-based conventional healer Shaba Shareef. The members of the Shaibin Ashraf gang have been arrested for the killing of Shareef, who was kidnapped from Mysuru in 2019 and murdered a 12 months later.
Harris’s mom petitioned to the police and sought a probe into the dying of her son in March 2020 following the arrest of the gang members in Might. Ashraf was a former enterprise associate of Harris.
The SIT final week approached a courtroom to exhume Antony’s stays, which have been despatched for forensic examination to the Thrissur Medical Faculty Hospital.
T Varkey, one among Antony’s relations, mentioned they’d some suspicions however had no proof. “It appears to be a brutal homicide,” he mentioned.
An SIT official mentioned they got here throughout a “blueprint” ready to remove Harris and Antony throughout their probe into Shareef’s homicide. SIT suspects Ashraf engaged a legal gang of eight, despatched them to the UAE in 2020, and organized a flat for them in the identical constructing the place Harris stayed. 4 folks allegedly concerned within the homicide of the healer have been additionally concerned within the twin killings, SIT mentioned.
SIT discovered Harris was trapped in his flat. He was killed after being pressured to suffocate Antony to get his fingerprints on her physique. After torturing him, his wrist was slit. Antony was suffocated to dying along with her scarf.
SIT discovered Ashraf was monitoring every thing from Wayanad in Kerala. A few of the gang members handed over a pen drive with some conversations with references to the dual homicide case and the way it was handed off as suicide to police.
On April 28, three of the gang members, who fell out with Ashraf, tried to immolate themselves saying he was hounding them. They informed police in regards to the healer’s killing and handed over the pen drive. They admitted they have been companions in lots of such crimes, which led to arrests.
Two weeks again, retired police officer S Surendran, who was near Ashraf, surrendered to a courtroom in Idukki after evading arrest for 4 months. Police suspect Surendran helped Ashraf and assisted him in his actions.