Maha police scan bank, demat details of slain Indian Navy sailor

Palghar (Maharashtra), Feb 9 : The police have started scanning the bank and stock market trading accounts of Indian Navy sailor Surajkumar M. Dubey, who was allegedly kidnapped in Chennai and later burnt alive in Palghar, attempting to unravel the motives behind the ghastly crime, official sources said here on Tuesday.
Ten teams of the Palghar Police are racing to crack the case with one team in Chennai securing and analysing the CCTV footage obtained from the vicinity of the Chennai Airport from where Dube, 27, was kidnapped on January 31.
As stated by the police earlier, Dube, who was working as a leading seaman with the INS Agrani in Coimbatore, was a regular player in the stock markets and had run up a huge debt of over Rs 2.30 million from family and friend circles.
“We are examining each entry in his bank accounts and demat accounts and have found that he invested hugely in stocks,” said a police officer.
The Palghar Police have taken it as a challenge to crack the case, 10 months after the infamous mob lynching of two Sadhus and their driver in April 2020, for which they have been targeted by the opposition BJP.
Palghar Superintendent of Police, Dattatraya Shinde, is personally directing the probe teams comprising 100 personnel, one of the biggest numbers deployed for any single case in recent times.