MUMBAI: A Nalasopara jeweller was tied, gagged and brutally murdered by two unidentified masked men who entered his shop on Saturday morning. The murder has been captured on the CCTV of Sakshi Jewellers located on the busy ST stand road in Nalasopara (west)
Kishore Jain (45) had reached the store at 10.30am. He lived across the shop. He did not have any employee and handled the store by himself.
Around 11.30 am, Jain’s daughter Sakshi dropped in to the shop. She opened the glass door and entered to find her father lying in a pool of blood. Her screams alerted other shopkeepers. Sakshi collapsed on seeing her father. Jain was taken to Alliance Hospital, Nalasopara (east), where he was declared ‘brought dead’.
The CCTV footage shows the men enter the showroom at around 10.43 am. While one of them heads towards the strong room, the other, carrying a backpack, turns around and shuts the glass door.
Jain was caught unaware and tried to scream for help but the men gagged him and tied him up. The men, wearing caps and masks, slit Jain’s neck, stabbed him in the abdomen and walk out of the shop. They have been captured on CCTV heading towards the railway station, said Vilas Tupe of Nalasopara police station.
Police said that it is not known if the men opened the safe which were found locked when the police arrived.
As Jain had just opened the shop, the valuables may have been inside the safe. Fingerprint experts have examined the safes. A dog squad was also brought in.
Police said it was raining and most shopkeepers were inside their shops when the crime took place. Shop keepers told the police they did not hear anything unusual.
A woman running a grocery shop in the vicinity said Jain used to step out for tea after opening his shop. On Saturday he did not. Police said the robbers may have kept a watch on Jain before committing the crime on Saturday. No murder weapon has been found as yet.
As word spread, shopkeepers, including jewellers in the vicinity, downed their shutters, demanding that the killers be nabbed at the earliest. Locals said that a few days ago a theft was reported at a doctor’s clinic wherein thieves took away Rs 10,000. s
