Dinesh Kamath's news item 'Father-son duo involved in Loharia murder case' that was published in Newsband

Father-son duo involved in Loharia murder case

By Dinesh Kamath

NAVI MUMBAI: A vehicle service centre owner and his son were arrested from Navi Mumbai by Crime Branch. They are suspected of indulging in transferring the money paid to contract killers of builder S K Lahoria. The names of this father-son duo are Gerald Bhovin (67) and Jackson Bhovin (28).

This father and son have a service centre located at Palm Beach Road that belongs to prime accused builder Suresh Bijlani. Gerald is someone who got along very well with both the accused, Bijlani and architect Anuragh Garg. Both the accused are still absconding. Bijlani would get his vehicles serviced at Gerald's centre.

Besides this father and son duo, others who are in police custody in connection with this murder case are shooters Venkastesh Shettiar and Wajid Qureshi, former encounter cop Emmanuel Amolik and builders Sumit Bacchewar, Altaf Khan and Mohammed Ansari alias Bhaijan.

Garg had got his driver to deliver the cash to Gerald. Gerald then delivered the cash to Amolik before Lahoria was shot dead on 16 February 2013. After the murder, Gerald received another bag containing cash from the driver which he passed on to Amolik. The police during investigation learnt about the transaction that took place. It was clear that the cash was supposed to be contract-killing money.

The police have yet to decide whether the father and son should be considered as accused and kept under arrest or made witnesses.