A TRADITIONAL healer from Mysuru in Karnataka, who was abducted in 2019 from his residence and stored in captivity in a home in Kerala’s Malappuram district for greater than a yr to power him to reveal the key formulation of his drugs for piles, was finally tortured to loss of life, in response to Kerala Police.
The police have arrested prime accused Shaibin Asharaf, a 42-year-old from Malappuram district, who runs a resort enterprise and ventures within the Middle-east, and three of his accomplices for the homicide of Shaba Sherif, 60.
According to the police, Shaibin and his accomplices kidnapped Shaba, a small-time healer recognized for his one-time remedy of piles, from his home in August 2019. He was taken to Shaibin’s walled-house at Nilambur in Malappuram, the place the healer was chained and shut in a room.
Shaibin needed to extract the key of the normal drugs ready by Shaba and begin its business manufacturing to make cash. As Shaba didn’t reveal the key, Shaibin and his males tortured him to loss of life, chopped his physique into items, and threw them in a river in packets, the police mentioned.
That was in October 2020, round 14 months after the kidnapping. By then, the police in Mysuru had shelved the lacking particular person case filed by Shaba’s household after investigations to hint him did not proceed past Wayanad district, police sources mentioned.
The breakthrough got here solely on April 29 this yr, when 5 individuals threatened to immolate themselves in entrance of the state secretariat, claiming that Shaibin had cheated them and that they’d dedicated crimes at his behest.
Doused in an inflammable liquid, one in every of them screamed earlier than a crowd of onlookers, together with police, “Our lives are under threat. We have been cheated by Shaibin. We had committed crimes, including murder, at the behest of Shaibin. We have evidence.” One of them, T Naushad, flashed a pen-drive, claiming that it contained proof for homicide.
Taken to an area police station in Thiruvananthapuram, the 5 confessed that they had been concerned in a theft at Shaibin’s home in Nilambur on April 24. They looted Rs 7 lakh, 4 costly cell phones and three laptops after Shaibin didn’t pay them for executing crimes on his behalf.
The police in Nilambur then determined to look into the allegations of homicide. On examination of the pen drive, the police discovered movies during which Shaibin and others had been seen torturing an individual.
Subsequently, the probe moved to Mysuru to confirm if the particular person being tortured was Shaba.
Following affirmation, Shaibin was arrested together with three of his accomplices within the homicide – P Shihabudeen, T Naushad and N Nishad. Naushad, who was among the many 5 who staged the suicide drama, had videographed Shaba’s torture, sources mentioned.
Nilambur Deputy Superintendent of Police Saju Ok Abraham mentioned after being kidnapped, Shaba was stored chained in a room at Shaibin’s home. “Every day, Shaibin would flip up on the room, forcing the healer to reveal the key of his drugs. As he refused, Shaba was brutally tortured. They even introduced a number of herbs and different objects, which had been believed to be elements of the drugs. However, Shaba didn’t disclose the key, resulting in his homicide.’’
Abraham mentioned they had been in search of 5 extra suspects in reference to the homicide. “We will also search for Shaba’s body parts, which were thrown into Chaliyar river in Nilambur,” he mentioned.
He mentioned Shaba’s ottamooli (one-time drugs) was believed to be efficient for piles. “Mysuru region has several such traditional healers engaged in treating piles. Shaibin believed that Shaba’s medicine had a fast-healing property and looked effective. Shaibin wanted to get the secret behind the medicine and start its commercial production,” he mentioned.
