Four accused of killing professor held

BELGAUM: Police have arrested four of the five persons accused in the murder of Kiran Madhav Gokhale, a professor of the Gogte Institute of Technology, Belgaum, in November 2010.
Those arrested are Mounesh Subhash Patil of Tilakwadi, the mastermind, his girlfriend Punam Prabhakar Tarlekar, Sachin Madhukar Vadaliyar and Nitin Narendra Shinde. They all are from Belgaum.Another accused, contract killer Aslam, is absconding.
Mounesh had paid Aslam money to kill Gokhale, police said.
Mounesh, a student of the victim, hatched a plot to kill Gokhale, 43, after seeing share certificates worth Rs 1 crore and jewellery at his residence. Mounesh, along with the other four, murdered the professor on November 13, 2010, at his Bhagya Nagar residence. They made away with valuables. According to police sources, the accused couldn't find the share certificates at Gokhale's residence.
People informed police when the body began stinking. Tilakwadi police registered a case of unnatural death.
They left after killing professor
Police superintendent Sandeep Patil said the accused left Belgaum after killing Gokhale, and hid in Hyderabad, Hubli and other cities. Based on the tip-off, police came to know the addresses of the accused and arrested them. "We will soon arrest Aslam too," Patil added.
After killing the teacher, Mounesh and his accomplices threw the body by the roadside outside the city, Patil said. It was found five days later in a decomposed condition.