Pune

Mumbai Government Railway Police

Hinjewadi campus

Infosys

Rajiv Gandhi Infotech Park

Kerala

Mumbai GRP

CCTV footage

Gitanjali Express

Howrah

GPS

Dadar

CST

WhatsApp

Bhaben Saikia was to board a Howrah-bound train and was sleeping outside the waiting room on Platform No. 18 when the GRP traced him at 2 am Monday.Precise coordination between thePolice and the(GRP) led to the arrest of a security guard accused of killing a 24-year-old woman working at software major Infosys’sin Pune.The victim, Rasila Raju, was found dead in a conference room on the ninth floor of thebuilding in Phase II ofaround 8 pm Sunday. The systems engineer, from Kozhikode in, was strangulated with a computer cable.Preliminary investigation revealed the victim had threatened to report the accused, Bhaben Saikia, to his bosses after she repeatedly found him staring at her a day before the murder. On Sunday, finding her alone in office, he requested her not to file a complaint, and strangulated her when she refused to relent, the Pune Police said. He then stomped on her face a few times to make sure she was dead.Saikia was arrested from outside a waiting room at CST’s platform number 18 around 2 am Monday after officers from Hinjewadi Police Station alerted theabout his presence in the city, and circulated his images obtained from the. A native of Assam, he was to catch theforat 6 am.Saikia worked for a private security firm called Terrier Security Services, and was deployed at the Infosys campus for the last six months. He was charged for murder under the Indian Penal Code Section 302 and remanded in police custody till Saturday.The first clue for the Pune Police was the CCTV footage from the premises, which showed the accused and the victim in the section from where she was coordinating with her colleagues in Bengaluru. Saikia told the police during his interrogation that he was desperate to prevent a complaint against him and requested Rasila to allow him entry inside the section using her ID card. The section she was working from is one of the areas within the premises where only those with specific access cards can enter, and even security guards don’t have such access cards.Saikia said during his interrogation that he told the victim he needed to note down the computers’ serial numbers.“Once inside, he again requested Rasila not to report him and the two had a huge fight, after which he strangulated her using the computer cable,” ACP Vaishali Jadhav from the Pune Police said. The body was discovered after Rasila’s manager failed to contact her and alerted the security.The accused didn’t immediately flee; instead, to ensure the needle of suspicion didn’t point towards him, he completed his shift and remained on the premises for the next one-and-a-half hours, leaving only after handing over the charge to those in the next shift.The cops began tracking him after it emerged that he had gone missing. Thetracking system showed the location of his mobile phone in Mumbai. All but certain that Saikia would try to escape to his hometown, the Pune cops alerted the Mumbai GRP to keep a watch on the long-distance trains going to the eastern parts of the country. At the same time, a Pune Police team headed by API Ganesh Dhamne left for Mumbai.“The tracker showed the accused was at Panvel, then Dadar. By the time we reached, he was at,” Dhamne said. Meanwhile, a team of 12 cops from the Mumbai GRP had fanned out to CST, the Kurla terminus, Dadar, and Thane stations.Pictures of the accused were shared over, and the cops searched all waiting rooms and footpaths abutting the stations.“We started around 10.30 pm,” an officer from the Mumbai GRP said. “Our teams searched every single platform at stations where long-distance trains to eastern parts of India have a halt. Even washrooms and footpaths were checked,,” the officer said.Railway Police Commissioner Niket Kaushik hailed the quick response from his squad and the Pune Police. “The teams swung into action within minutes of information being shared. The quick response ensured the accused was nabbed within hours of the crime,” he said.