Arun Tikku murder case recap
Senior citizen Arun Tikku murdered by two persons at his Samarth Angan residence in Oshiwara. The two were later identified as Dhananjay Shinde and Manoj Gajkosh.
March 5Aspiring film producer Karan Kakkar, 28, reportedly goes missing from his Oberoi Springs residence in Lokhandwala area of Andheri (W). His elder brother Hanish and mother come to Mumbai from Delhi and lodge a complaint with the Amboli police.
April 7Senior citizen Arun Tikku murdered by two persons at his Samarth Angan residence in Oshiwara. The two were later identified as Dhananjay Shinde and Manoj Gajkosh.
April 11Shinde, Gajkosh and the mastermind behind Tikku’s murder Vijay Palande arrested from Bandra and Chiplun. Palande escapes from police custody and is caught late in the night. Later, Palande’s distant relative and crime branch inspector Sanjay Shinde shunted to administration department.
April 13Palande’s wife, Simran Sood, arrested for her alleged role in Kakkar’s kidnapping.
April 14Kakkar’s BMW, in which he is believed to have been kidnapped, traced to Kondwa. The car was spotted near Krishna Kewal building and was with Palande’s relative Rahul Mane.
April 16Police find Kakkar’s body in the Kumbharli Ghat near Satara-Goa Road.
April 17Gurudutt Jaidev, a businessman from Karnataka and the owner of the Mercedes, traced. He tells the police that he came in contact with Palande through a common friend and that Palande had forcibly taken his vehicle.
April 23Stockbroker Gautam Vora arrested for helping Palande. He was the boyfriend of supermodel Viveka Babajee, who allegedly committed suicide in 2010.
April 30More body parts (a torso) believed to be of Kakkar found in Kumbharli Ghat.
May 14The police recover a blood-stained chopper and a sickle from Kumbharli Ghat and send it for forensic analysis. The police also recover Kakkar’s Samsung Galaxy Tab phone, which too, was stolen after his murder.
May 17A dozen live cartridges seized from Simran Sood’s Oshiwara house. An offence under the Arms Act registered against Palande.
May 17Amboli police station sub-inspector, Saifuddin Sheikh, suspended. Sheikh was the first investigating officer in the Karan Kakkar case after his parents lodged a compliant on April 5June 8
DNA reports of the body parts found in Kumbharli Ghat near Chiplun show the recovered torso matched with that of Kakkar’s relative’s DNA, the skull didn’t match. The crime branch booked Palande for a fresh case of murder of an unknown person.