Mangaluru: Police Commissioner confirms accused brother of Swedal Cutinho was drug addict
Mangaluru: After cracking the sensational Fiona Swedal murder case, Mangaluru Police Commissioner, Dr. PS Harsha on Monday called a press conference and confirmed that the accused brother of Swedal, Samson Cutinho was a drug addict.
Detailing about the case to the reporters in his office, Dr. Harsha added that a missing complaint was filed on October 8 at Konaje Police Station as she didn't return home after going to Mangaluru on that according to her parents. Harsha added that the case, being that of a minor girl, was taken seriously by the police and immediate investigations into the matter was initiated.
"The case was looked at from various possible angles. Swedal's friends were also enquired but the investigation team did not get any clue in the disappearance of Swedal" Harsha said.
"Later, investigation revealed that nobody had seen Swedal leaving for Mangaluru from home on October 10. Her mobile phone records also suggested that it was switched off in Konaje locality itself. This indicated towards being an internal matter of the family and we began investigating the family members suspecting their role in Swedal's disappearance" he added.
The investigation led to intense enquiry of the family members and later Swedal's brother Samson Cutinho, an engineering college dropout confessed to have killed her and dumped her body in the forest behind their house.
"Samson was a college dropout and used spend most of his time at home. We also gathered reports that he was a drug addict so we investigated him and confessed to have committed the crime" Harsha told reporters.
Samson was arrested by the police and sent to judicial custody after being produced before magistrate.
Parts of body if Swedal were recovered from the forest behind her house, after Samson led to the place where he dumped her body.
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Tamil YouTuber 'Savukku' Shankar arrested for 'defamatory remarks against women police'
Tamil YouTuber ‘Savukku’ Shankar was arrested by the Coimbatore police allegedly for making defamatory remarks against women police officials, police here said on Saturday.
A team from the Coimbatore City Cybercrime wing arrested Shankar from Theni early today morning and brought him to the city, police said.
Enroute, the police vehicle in which Shankar was being brought met with an accident near Dharapuram in Tiruppur district when a car collided head-on with the police van, they added.
Besides Shankar, two police constables suffered minor injuries in the accident and they were treated as outpatients at the Dharapuram Government Hospital, police said.
“Savukku Shankar has been arrested today for offences committed under sections 294 (b), 509 and 353 IPC read with section 4 of Tamil Nadu prohibition of harassment of Women Act and section 67 of Information Technology Act, 2000,” Coimbatore City Police said in a post on X.
The arrest was made based on a complaint by a Sub-Inspector of Police of Coimbatore City for allegedly making objectionable comments against women cops in a recent interview to a youtube channel.
