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1.4.11

Monica murdered due to mistaken identity

Citizens, who had shown rare solidarity in protesting and seeking justice for Monica Kirnapure, may wake up to a shock to know that the 23-year-old engineering student is likely to have been killed due to a mistaken identity. The assailants, who were given a supari for Rs 1.40 lakhs, had presumed Monica to be another third year student who was not even her friend. The only common thread was they went to the same college and also resided in the same hostel.

The mastermind and his friend had been questioned earlier by the cops but they had managed not to raise the suspicion. Finally, when the cops rounded up one Shrikant Sonekar on Thursday from his house in Hudkeshwar, he spilled the beans which helped them to fill in the holes and complete the chain of events that led to the brutal murder on March 11. Sonekar is a master burglar and with several cases of housebreaking against his name.

Shweta (name changed), also from Shrimati Rajshree Mulak College of Engineering for Women, was the target of the killers who had come from Katol. While Monica was a third-year student of electronics, Shweta belonged to the third year batch of computer engineering.

Police said that Shweta's former boyfriend Kunal Jaiswal was the mastermind as he wanted to take revenge on being jilted. Jaiswal had become jealous after Shweta had grown close to another youth (name withheld) who was already in a relationship with one of her friends.

The name of Jaiswal, a teacher at an English school in Katol, cropped up when the cops were examining the call details of various people who were staying in the same hostel as Monica. Also, another hostelite also confessed to a woman police sub inspector that Jaiswal used to call her for details of Shweta's movements. It was at this point that the police felt that Monica may have been the wrong target.

Along with Jaiswal, his friend Pradeep Sahare too came under suspicion following the scanning of the former's call details. Both were questioned a couple of times a few days ago but managed to keep the attention away from them by giving evasive answers.

Now, both are untraceable. The cops have launched a vigorous manhunt for Jaiswal, Sahare and a couple of other suspects.

Since Monica had her face covered, the assailants mistook her for Shweta. Moreover, there was some misunderstanding between Jaiswal and the assailants too. Monica, a resident of Ramtek, was heading to college when she was brutally stabbed by two people at Shree Nagar in Nandanvan. She received 10 stab wounds. Such was the force of the attack that the knife remained embedded in her body.

According to the police, Shweta and Jaiswal, whose father owned a hotel in Katol, were involved in a relationship for over a year. Jaiswal was introduced to Shweta when she had come to his village to attend a wedding.

The two broke up after a tiff. Jaiswal was keen on a patch up and often used to come to Nagpur to try and meet Shweta who did not show any interest.

Sources said that Shweta had a friend Neetu (name changed), also an engineering student from KDK college, who stayed at the same hostel. Shweta got close to Neetu's boyfriend which further enraged Jaiswal who even threatened the youth on one occasion.

Police said that Jaiswal befriended Kanika (name changed), another hostelite, and used to seek information from her on Shweta's whereabouts. Kanika was convinced that there was nothing wrong as Jaiswal said he wanted to take back Rs 14,000 Shweta owed him.

Not able to win back Shweta, Jaiswal decided to eliminate her. He roped in Sahare and three others - Raju, Sonekar and an unnamed person - to do the job.

Two days before the murder, Jaiswal and Sahare had come to Nagpur and managed to keep a track on Shweta's schedule with the help of Kanika. The cops also studied the cell records of Jaiswal and Sahare prior to the murder date.

Jaiswal skipped school for a couple of days but ensured that he was present in Katol on the murder date. He and Sahare kept contact with Kanika over the cellphone. They were also talking to the assailants who were waiting near the hostel.

On the fateful day, Kanika made a mistake in passing information to Jaiswal who was told that Shweta had left. Jaiswal presumed she had just left the hostel and asked the assailants, one of whom was a heavily drunk Sonekar, to attack the girl who had stepped out. Actually, Shweta had left the hostel at 9am while the attack took place at 11am. Monica just happened to be there at the wrong time.
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