Man kills his pregnant partner, dumps body in Maharashtra's Gondia forest

NAGPUR: Sameer Shaikh, 26, a native of Buti Bori, lured his live-in partner for an outing on a bike before murdering and dumping her body at a desolate place in the forest of Dasgarh within the limits of the Chhichhgarh police station in Gondia in June.
The woman, in her 30s, was physically challenged and seven months pregnant. The unidentified body had posed a tricky challenge for the Gondia police.The cops, under SP Vishwa Pansare, had to toil for almost a month to crack the case with the help of technical evidence.
Shaikh, who had roped in his relative Asif Pathan and his friend Praful Shivankar for the murder, wanted to get rid of his partner as she was proving to be a hurdle for his marriage with a family-preferred alliance.
Shaikh started for Gondia with his live-in partner on his bike and was followed by Pathan and Shivankar, who were on another two-wheeler.
After reaching a desolate place near Dashgarh forest, Pathan is learnt to have first assaulted his partner on the neck. Later, he rained blows all over her body. Earlier, Shaikh took her cellphone and switched it off.
The assailants then dragged the body inside the forest and hid it in a bush on June 22, leaving the cops clueless the following day.
SP Pansare of Gondia police formed four teams before sending them to Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and the adjoining districts like Gadchiroli and Bhandara to collect information about the missing physically challenged woman.
It was during the investigation that the cops managed to lay their hands on a SIM card whose number was traced to Buti Bori. Gondia cops led by SDPO Jalindhar Nalkul and senior inspector Baban Awadh, cyber cell incharge Vaishali Patil and senior inspector of Chhichgadh Atul Tawade traced the victim’s family and later zeroed in on the assailants.