Constable Ashok Takalkar of Pune crime branch social security cell (SSC) played a major role in solving a one-and-a-half-year-old murder case of a 25-year-old woman, who was strangulated to death at a lodge in Bibvewadi area.The body of Ramiya Govind Reddy, alias Benfaluru, was found packed in an iron trunk and dumped at Khambatki Ghat on March 14, 2010.The police were able to crack the case after Takalkar received a tip-off from his informant. Senior police inspector Bhanupratap Barge of SSC said, “Acting on the tip-off, we came to know that Shetty (one of the suspects) had murdered the woman. We arrested him.”The arrested suspects have been identified as Vishwanath Narayan Shetty (28), a resident of Kings Guest House in Yerawada and hailing from Mogral Puthur (Kerala); Deepak Kumar Sigwal (28) of Ashok Park in Delhi; and Suresh Manju Kothari (33) of Mangadewadi in Katraj. Another suspect, identified as Sudhkar Shetty, is still at large.According to the police, Ramiya was working as a commercial sex worker for three years. She used to attend to customers at the lodge in Bibvewadi area run by Shetty. She later befriended Shetty and they even decided to get married. However, the relationship soured when Ramiya refused to give up her profession.On March 14 last year, following a dispute, Shetty allegedly strangled her to death and dumped her body in a water tank on the lodge terrace. Three days later Shetty, along with Sigwal and Kothari, put the body in an iron truck and dumped it in Khambatki Ghat. The Khandala police found the body on March 17.Barge said Shetty mentioned his crime to someone in an inebriated condition, which led to the arrest of the suspects.

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