Two migrant Muslims held for murder of bonded laborer in Surat in 2017

Surat: Pandesara police nabbed Akbar Ali Shaikh and his wife Afsana Begum for murder of a bonded labourer in 2017 and chopping his dead body in pieces after the murder.

The police had found the torso of the dead body of Mohammad Fakrudin in January 2017. Fakruddin and two other bonded laborers Israfi and Izrail left the work and went to their natives. Their master Akbar Ali Shaikh and his wife Afsana Begum forcibly brought the three back to Surat. After bringing them back, they were allotted labour work in a closed room. The accused Akbar Ali Shaikh had beaten, threatened and warned the labourers to not to return to their natives. The accused Akbar Ali used to often beat Fakruddin for minor mistakes. He allegedly murdered him by beating him with iron rod for a fault in work on 6th January.

The accused couple, after the murder, brought 3 knives and asked two minors of the age of 15 years and 17 years working under them to chop the dead body in pieces. They made the minor laborers chop the dead body and fill the pieces in bags. One of the minors was made to throw the bags filled with the pieces of dead body in bushes in Bhestan via carrying them in Activa. The accused couple had threatened the minors to kill them if they shared it with anyone. The accused couple left Surat and went to Telangana after murder.

A female PSI JR Desai of Pandesara police wore a Burqa to nab the accused couple hidden in Telangana. The accused couple Akbar Ali Mohammad Sayan Shaikh (age 34) and his wife Afsana Begum runs business of installing stones in Saris. They are mainly from Motihari in Bihar and lives in Suleman Nagar in Telangana. DeshGujarat