How Papiya Ghosh Murder Case Convict Asif Khan Became Ashish Kumar to Con Cops

Meet Asif Khan, who hails from Odisha. He’s a infamous felony who was concerned within the notorious homicide of Papiya Ghosh, a professor within the College of Patna and daughter of IAS officer Ujjal Ghosh. She was discovered murdered on December 3, 2006, alongside together with her aged housemaid, Malti Devi, apparently on account of an tried housebreaking.

Sources say when Khan, together with co-accused Shankar Sao, Manohar Kumar, Ashish Kumar and Anik Oraon bought arrested, he advised the police his identify was Ashish.

The Papiya Ghosh homicide was a really high-profile case, and if the 2008 conviction experiences are seen then among the many names of the convicts is Ashish Kumar, not Asif Khan.

So Asif Khan was lodged in Bihar’s Beur Jail as a convict with the identify Ashish Kumar Ray. He fled from jail in 2018, went to Odisha, fashioned a brand new gang, and began robberies once more.

Just lately there was a dacoity-cum-murder in a jewelry store in Titagarh, on Could 24. Asif was noticed by police, however his twin identities created confusion.

Sources say that when Barrackpore police contacted Patna police together with his identify and identification, it discovered that his identify was Ashish Kumar Ray within the information within the neighbouring state.

Following a gruelling investigation, Barrackpore police tracked him down, bought his handle, went to his household in Odisha, and learnt that Asif had conned the cops.

Talking to News18, Barrackpore police commissioner Alok Rajoria stated, “In a case of dacoity-cum-murder in a gold store u/Titagarh PS on Could 24, third accused Asif Khan, s/o Kiafyat Khan, of Dist Jagarsinghpur of Orissa (initially from Patna) was arrested on 3/6/23 from Patna. As per investigation finished thus far, he was arrested and convicted as Ashish Kumar Ray within the Papiya Ghosh homicide case in 2006.”

Cops say that they’d not seen such a case.