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Labourer arrested for killing transwoman over solicitation in Pune
Pune police on Saturday arrested a 26-year-old labourer for killing a transwoman with whom he is suspected to have indulged in solicitation
PUNE: The Pune police on Saturday arrested a 26-year-old man for killing a transwoman with whom he is suspected to have indulged in solicitation.
The deceased has been identified as Sarika alias Sagar Khandu Ujagar, a resident of Mhada Colony, Hadapsar. The arrested man has been identified as Vijay Gayaram Choudhury (26) a resident of Sundarnagar, Katraj who works as a labourer, according to the police.
According to the officials, a body was found half-naked in the bushes on November 23 around 8am along the Mumbai-Bangalore highway. The body also had injuries on it. The officials took two days to identify the person by talking to nearby shop or restaurant owners. “A person in a local bar told us that she had left with a man she had met in there. So, we back-tracked her steps and found that she had arrived at the bar in a bus. Prima facie it looks like a murder that happened out of solicitation,” said senior police inspector Kalaskar.
The deceased transwoman collected alms on the toll plaza in Khed Shivapur, according to the police. “A young boy who sold fried snacks on the toll plaza who identified her,” said senior PI Kalaskar.
The arrested man, who will be produced in court on Sunday, and the deceased transwoman were not known to each other before November 22, according to the police. A case under Section 302 (murder) of the Indian Penal Code has been registered at Bharti Vidyapeeth police station.
