Vasco: Love in the time of Covid: one dead, three held

VASCO: Investigation into the Bogmalo shooting case has revealed that a love affair was at its root, South Goa superintendent of police Pankaj Kumar Singh said on Monday. The brother of the woman that the deceased, Amar Naik, was in a relationship with, had engaged a contract killer.
Both families were opposed to their relationship and had tried to convince them to break up.
“The victim is said to have been in a relationship with a girl from Vasco for a few years. It had angered the brother of the girl to the extent that he planned to murder him,” Singh said.
The brother was a friend of the victim and is said to have helped him some years ago when he was undergoing some crisis. The fact that his sister was in a relationship with his friend did not go down well with the accused, sources said.

Singh said that the brother “contacted one of his old friends Ravi Shanker Yadav and offered him Rs 5 lakh to kill Naik”. “Yadav in turn brought in the two other shooters to carry out the task,” Singh said, adding that the murder was planned five to six months ago.
Yadav resided in New Vaddem about a decade ago and he and Naik were known to each other. Yadav was arrested on Saturday.
The brother lives abroad and police will arrest him soon, Singh said. “The fourth accused is absconding as of now. We will be carrying out all legal procedures by contacting the ministry of external affairs to bring the accused to India.”
“We are finding out whether more money was to be paid after the crime to the contract killers and are trying to find out how they procured the weapons,” Singh said.
It may be recalled that Naik was shot dead at an elite colony at Bogmalo on Thursday evening. Naik was into small-time mining, transportation and property business. He was accompanied by a friend when he was killed. The two men from UP — Shailesh Gupta, 29, and Shivam Sarvajeet Singh, 22 — who were engaged by Yadav to kill Naik, had lured the victim into meeting them for a property deal.
Yadav brought the two accused from UP to Goa. They travelled to Maharashtra by train and then to Goa by bus. He accompanied them and kept them in Anjuna. He also made them call Naik and crack a false deal to lure him to the site of the crime.
Yadav’s brother had taken up a hotel on lease in Anjuna and Yadav, who is unemployed, had taken shelter there. On Friday, the police had arrested the two contract killers from UP. Police confirmed that Gupta had shot Naik. Both are in police custody.