A used piece of gauze from the killer's forehead that fell at the spot where he had murdered a man helped the Kurar police solve the crime within hours. An alert local had called the police control room after spotting the body of Aslam Shaikh, 35, in Kurar on Saturday morning. A Kurar police team reached the spot and cordoned off the area. Shaikh was rushed to Siddharth hospital where doctors declared him brought dead. Shaikh's head had been hit by a blunt object and the killer had later strangulated him with a nylon rope. The investigating team recovered the rope, used gauze, an empty syringe and white powder, suspected to be mephedrone or meow meow, near the body.

While conducting a panchnama, zonal Deputy Commission of Police Dr Vinaykumar Rathod noticed the gauze or dressing pad near the body. "Initially, it looked like the deceased was a housebreaker who fell from the nearby building. But, my line of investigation changed when I saw the used gauze. There was no injury mark on Shaikh's body to indicate that it was his, so it could have been the killer's," DCP Rathod told mid-day.