Murder accused on the run for 10 years nabbed near Pakistan border
According to details, Sama lived at the construction site of the 'Elite Enclave' scheme in Rander with Barkat Sindhi, a fellow villager who had helped him get the job in 2015. Sindhi was acquainted with a woman named Rehana, who complained that her husband, Yusuf Ansari (30), abused her. Sindhi asked her to lure Ansari to the construction site, where he killed him by striking him with an axe.
To prevent identification of the body, Sindhi enlisted Sama, Imran Mori, and Indrajit Yadav to help dismember the body into five parts — two arms, two legs, and the torso — and further mutilated the face.
The remains were packed in plastic and jute bags to be disposed of in the Tapi River.
However, while Sindhi and Yadav were transporting the body parts, two bags accidentally fell off their vehicle near the house of local resident Salim Barafwala on Causeway Road. Panicked, the duo fled the scene, and all accused went underground.
For the past 10 years, Sama had been living under the disguise as a farmer at Tamaliyar village of Ramsar block in Barmer district — a desert region close to the India-Pakistan border in Rajasthan. Acting on human and technical intelligence, Surat DCB tracked him down and, with help from local police, arrested him during a raid.
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