Palghar Police find bank transactions, loan details in Naval sailor’s murder case

Ten police teams have been formed to probe the abduction and murder of a 26-year-old Navy personnel who was found with severe burn injuries in Palghar district and died while being shifted to a hospital in Mumbai, an official said on Sunday.

Over a week after he was allegedly abducted from Chennai for ransom, Navy sailor Suraj Kumar Dubey, hailing from Jharkhand, was burnt alive in forest of Palghar and died on February 5.

An official said bank and share transactions, loan details had been found as the probe progressed. Konkan Range Inspector General Sanjay Mohite told PTI on Sunday that the 10 teams formed were coordinating with their counterparts in Chennai and Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu, Ranchi in Jharkhand and Mumbai to crack the case.

According to the Navy spokesperson, Dubey was on leave when he was abducted. The Palghar Superintendent of Police Dattatray Shinde said Dubey had got engaged on January 15 this year and his future in-laws had transferred Rs 9 lakh into his bank account.

It has also been found that Dubey had recently conducted considerable number of share transactions through broking firms in Bhopal and Mumbai, he said.

According to the police, Dubey had taken a bank loan of Rs 8.43 lakh, and also burrowed Rs 6 lakh from his colleagues. Palghar SP said all these angles are being probed.

Dubey, who joined the Navy in 2012, was posted to the INS Agrani training institute in Tamil Nadu’s Coimbatore. He had been kidnapped by three unidentified persons from outside Chennai airport on January 30 when he was returning from visiting his family in Jharkhand, Dubey told the police before his death.