Mystery neta helped Kakkad fix matches

A shocking revelation made by the accused Vijay Palande in the sensational Karan Kakkad murder case points to a mystery neta who was liaising with the two in a matchfixing racket According to anonymous police sources the relationship shared by Kakkad and Palande turned sour when the two turned from being copartners in the racket to competitors The final nail in the coffin of the unholy nexus came when the unidentified politician started liaising directly with Kakkad leaving Palande out of the loop and without the allimportant share of the profits Illustration Amit Bandre Crime Branch sources revealed that the three were players in a flourishing matchfixing racket in which the neta played the crucial role of providing the capital which Palande and Kakkad then invested to fix matches Back in February the unnamed neta had offered funds worth Rs 15 crore directly to Kakkad to fix a match completely sidelining Palande Kakkadrsquos cut from this venture was a substantial Rs 88 lakh which he kept in his Lokhandwala residence Needless to say this unexpected development invited the fury of Palande Dangerous liaisons Simrin Sud was present at the meeting between Kakkad and Palande at a coffee shop in Lokhandwala but was instructed to leave by Palande when he spiked Kakkad39s drink and prepared to take him back to his apartment and murder him Soon Kakkad was liaising directly with the politician leaving an incensed Palande out in the cold But not one to nurse his fury Palande soon diverted his energies towards meticulously planning the murder of his friendturned foe Matters came to a head when the politician started making demands of his own allegedly asking Kakkad to use his resources and find him the ready services of a girl if he wanted to strike any more deals in future Kakkad readily agreed and asked his friend Simrin Sud to provide her services He was completely unaware that Simrin was the accomplice of Palande and that she would provide details of all his dubious dealings to him Learning that Kakkad was reaping profitable dividends from an arrangement that he had helped set up Palande flew into a rage and forbade Simrin from offering herself as honeytrap in a situation that wouldnrsquot benefit him financially at all Complying with his wishes Simrin refused to act as bait for Kakkadrsquos profit On March 6 Palande arranged for a meeting with Kakkad at a coffee shop in Lokhandwala on the pretext of discussing a deal Simrin and Palandersquos other accomplice Ganesh Shinde too was present at the rendezvous which started at 7 pm Palande spiked Kakkadrsquos cup of coffee As soon as Kakkad started showing signs of disorientation Palande allegedly ordered Simrin to leave And then the butchering began Read Timeline Crime Branch sources said they plan to interrogate Palande and Sud together to corroborate their statementsu00a0 Body parts found in chiplun not of karan says brother Karan Kakkadrsquos older brother Hanish believes that the body parts recovered by the Amboli police from Chiplun are not his brotherrsquos and that Vijay Palande is misleading the cops ldquoI will wait for the forensic tests that will determine the DNA of the recovered body parts I feel my brother is still alive and Palande has hidden him somewhererdquo said Hanish 32 an estate agent from Delhi Hanish stated that Karan who studied in Delhi left for Mumbai in 2009 to further his career Since they didnrsquot have any relatives in Mumbai he had to rent a flat at Oberoi Springs tower in Lokhandwala Oshiwara ldquoI am positive that Karan was working in Bollywood and was not a bookie as stated by the copsrdquo said Hanish Distraught with the copsrsquo account of Karanrsquos murder his mother said ldquoAfter hearing from the cops that Palande butchered my son in the bathroom I havenrsquot been able to enter itrdquo Hanish and his mother had been staying at Karanrsquos flat ever since they registered the kidnapping case with the cops Timeline At 740 pm on March 6 Simrin left the cafe leaving Shinde and Palande to their sinister devices Having spiked his drink they could feign that Kakkad had taken illu00a0 At 824 pm Shinde and Palande assisted Kakkad to his Andheri apartment and the brutal execution began At 917 pm when Kakkadrsquos throat was slit Till 4 am the next day the two worked to dismember the body into four parts stuffing two each into two bags that they found from the apartment Palande also bagged the cash he had been lsquodeniedrsquo by Kakkad He then drove out with the bags in Kakkadrsquos BMW leaving it parked at the forests near Aarey Colony This was done so that no one would see another man drive out Kakkadrsquos car once day broke Later that day Palande walked to the Aarey Colony forests and drove out the BMW for the wooded hills of Chiplun At about 810 am he dispatched an SMS to Simrin saying that the lsquojob was donersquou00a0