Man cuts up maid to pieces

Man cuts up maid to pieces
Chilling Murder Occured At Gogol, Margao, In 2006
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Madikeri (Karnataka): In a bone-chilling crime, a man has admitted killing a 12-year-old maid that he had employed by cutting up her body to pieces and burying the remains just outside his flat in Goa.
The accused, identified as C K Hamza, had employed young Shafia in Kasargod (Kerala) two years ago through one Aiyobi, a friend of the girl’s parents - B A Moideen and Aiysha - saying he wanted her to take care of his children. For two months since, Shafia would call her parents once a week.
On December 16, 2006, they were shocked to hear that she was missing. A complaint was lodged with Adur (Kasargod) police but Hamza is said to have got the complaint reversed telling them that the girl’s parents had taken her home. Suspecting something was wrong, local residents staged a protest asking for a proper investigation.
A special team then questioned Hamza’s wife Maimuna and relatives and got to know that he had taken the girl to a flat he owned in Goa. They
then arrested Hamza, who has confessed to the crime.
Hamza said he had taken Shafia to Goa to cook for him. One day she accidentally spilled a pan of hot water over herself and suffered severe burns. When the wounds wouldn’t heal he decided to kill her, he said.
Hamza, who was arrested along with one Abdulla in connection with the incident, was staying near Gogol housing board, Margao, Goa.
Meanwhile, during this period, it is learnt that Hamza had bagged a contract from the Irrigation Department’s Ponda Sub-division, DIV II for the construction of a Bandhara (bandh or small dam) at Kulem near Molem.
Hamza recently shifted his residence to Chandrawada in Fatorda.

July 4, 2008, The Times of India, Goa edition