KOLKATA: Vicky Haldar, prime accused in the murder of corporate executive Subir Chaki and his driver Robin Mondal, continued to elude police on Thursday. His mother, Mithu, who was arrested on Wednesday, was remanded in police custody till November 3.
The detective department has formed separate teams to trace Vicky and his aides, most of them being painters and plumbers from Diamond Harbour and surroundings.
Police commissioner Soumen Mitra said on Thursday the detective department, along with other police units, had cracked the double murder case though some of the accused were absconding.
Seeking Mithu’s police custody, public prosecutor Sourin Ghosal said she was actively involved in the planning and commissioning of the murders. She plotted the escape route and was present near Dhakuria station to take away Vicky’s blood-soaked clothes, police said. Mithu was reportedly aware of the cash and gold her son had stolen from Chaki’s Kankulia Road house.
After the murder, the accused went to the Ballygunge station and then, to Dhakuria station from where they fled in different directions. Mithu’s in-laws live near the Kankulia rail gate and her knowledge of the area helped her fix the escape routes. “We have produced four seizure lists in court.
They included Vicky’s blood-soaked clothes from Mithu’s home. We told court we needed Mithu’s police custody for three reasons: to recover the loot, to uncover the plot and so that she cooperates with us to trace the accused,” Ghosal said.
Vicky, a small-time broker in Diamond Harbour, had wanted to buy the Ballygunge house to resell it. But the price he offered was half the expected rate and Chaki backed out. After that, Mithu and Vicky who posed as an engineer in Metro, plotted to rob Chaki.
A couple of months earlier, the mother and son responded to Chaki’s ad for the sale of the house and Vicky visited the place, posing as a buyer. He took on a fake identity, using a different name, mobile number and speaking in English. To stay in the city, Vicky worked as a guard.
On Sunday, Vicky, along with his aides, “made an appointment with Chaki” to visit the property under a false name. On opening the door, once Chaki realized it was Vicky, it was too late. Vicky stabbed Chaki to death and robbed him of cash and gold. Mondal, who was on the first floor, did not get time to defend himself.
