Tuesday, February 11, 2014


Cops get clearer picture of man seen with slain techie

S Ahmed Ali TNN 

February 4,2014
Mumbai: The city police probing the murder of 23-year-old software engineer Esther Anuhya have got a clearer and enhanced picture of the mysterious man who is seen walking along with her while pulling her luggage in the footage obtained from CCTV cameras installed at the Lokmanya Train Terminus (LTT).
    A source said that the police, with the help of cyber experts and using face enhancing technolo
gy, have succeeded in enhancing the man’s picture. The police are now hoping to identify the person with the help of this enhanced picture. “He may be from the southern region. He is seen carrying a liquor bottle in his hand so early in the morning and yet no policemen stopped him. We have circulated the photo across the country and will release it soon for people to identify him,” said a GRP officer.
    The city crime branch believes that this man is key to the Anuhya’s mysterious murder and now that his photo has been enhanced they will be able to crack the case. The cops are sure the killer was known to Anuhya.
    On Monday, the Mumbai crime branch detained three 
more persons who resemble the man captured on the CCTVs and are interrogating them. A senior IPS officer on Monday reviewed the case and pulled up the three units working on it, asking them to speed up the probe and demanded results. A source said that though the GRP, local police and the crime branch are working on the case jointly, there is a difference of opinion over the leakage ofCCTV footage to media.
    Anhuya, who was employed with TCS in Goregaon, went missing on reaching LTT on January 5, a day after she left her hometown of Machilipatnam. Esther had boarded a train for Mumbai at Visakhapatnam on January 4 and reached Mumbai at 5.30am. On January 16, her family found her half-burnt decomposed body off Eastern Express Highway in Kanjurmarg. 
GRP wants 100 hi-res CCTV cameras at LTT he Kurla GRP on Monday submitted a proposal to the Central Railway to enhance electronic surveillance at the Lokmanya Tilak Terminus (LTT) in the wake of techie Esther Anuhya’s murder. A blueprint has been submitted to the divisional railway manager. The GRP and the city crime branch have questioned nearly 2,500 persons so far in the case, but are yet to make any arrests.
    “We have sought at least 100 CCTVs, which will have high-resolution grabs, fro installation at LTT. The New Delhi railway station has installed
such cameras long time ago. At present, only about 20-30% of LTT is covered by CCTV cameras and their images are grainy. We have gathered the footage of a man carrying Anuhya’s luggage on platforms 4-5, but the images can’t be zoomed in too much,” said senior inspector Shivaji Dhumal, Kurla GRP.
    The isolated terminus is flanked by a large slum colony on one side. Cops want to instal the CCTV cameras at all entranc
es/exits, waiting halls and taxi parking areas. “If the parking area had a decent camera, we would have known who droveAnuhya away. Installing more baggage scanners and metal detectors has also been suggested,” said Dhumal. GRP officials said CCTVs at LTT’s new building are yet to be made functional. The proposal includes a suggestion to fortify LTT with a 12-ft boundary wall. The railways has been battling unhindered access issue at most stations. —Nitasha Natu


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