Murder accused Krishna Manbahadur Periyar, 25, had been arrested in 2013 for robbery by the Juhu police, and spent seven years in jail, but the cops haven’t found any criminal records of him in the Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and System (CCTNS) of Maharashtra police. The company that employed him, has claimed that they completed his police verification through a law agency they hired, and the Sakinaka police had verified his records.

The Santacruz police are now checking whether the Sakinaka police did do Periyar’s verification as claimed by the company. Periyar was hired as a caretaker by the Health Care at Home India company which is in Sakinaka, on May 1. The company officials claimed that they completed the police verification with the Sakinaka police through a law firm they had hired, and after completing it, they gave the job to Periyar.