The police investigating the case of the rape and murder of 23-year-old software engineer Esther Anuhya have not got any clues from mobile phone data collected and so they are concentrating on gathering information from people to lead them to the culprits.
Crime branch investigators tracked the phone records of about 800 people, most of them taxi and autorickshaw drivers who operate from the Lokmanya Tilak Terminus in Kurla, from where the 23-year-old girl went missing early on January 5.
“We have gone through the cell phone records but have not found any information about the possible presence of these persons in the Bhandupeshwar kund area or anywhere between the train terminus and the spot where the body was found,” said a crime branch official.
Anuhya’s burnt body was found by relatives in Bhandupeshwar kund 10 days after she went missing.
The police official said no call or message had been recorded between 5am and 7am – the period during which the girl is said to have arrived on a train after a vacation to her hometown Vijaywada in Andhra Pradesh.
He explained that if the culprits had taken her from the railway terminus to Bhandupeshwar kund and then returned to LTT, their location would have continued to register at Kurla, or wherever the first call or message happened that day.
“We are now relying on human intelligence to resolve the case,” the police official said.
He said that they are focusing on taxi and rickshaw drivers as buses do not ply on the Kurla-Bhandup stretch in the early hours and the girl could have been taken to the place only by a taxi or an autorickshaw.
The investigators have recorded the statements of about 800 people, some of them passengers who had travelled on the train with the girl. Many of them are taxi and autorickshaw drivers, even porters at the Kurla railway terminus and vendors at and around the terminus.
“The members of a family from Hyderabad, who had travelled with Anuhya in the same compartment, said that they had last seen her at the platform after they alighted from the train at the station. They then parted ways,” the official said.
The police are continuing to check the data of cell phone calls going through the mobile phone towers in the Bhandupeshwar kund area and another one at Airoli bridge.
“There is data of a few phone calls being made during that time slot that could be of local residents from the locality. But we are not taking any chances and will verify this. Five officers and ten constables have been put on the job to check the details of these phone calls,” the police official said.
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