An indefatigable 18-month-old female Dobermann, a member of Vadodara rural cops’ dog squad for about a month now, has proved to be the ‘Holmes’ among canines, yet again. Jawa took less than half an hour to end a ghastly murder story by leading cops right up to six criminals who raped and killed a 38-year-old woman. Displaying high athleticism, sharp focus and a tenaciously determined sense of purpose the dog sniffed a dupatta and a bottle on the crime spot and started walking in the northern direction.

It walked continuously for around 2 kilometers, through fields and bushes until it crossed the busy Ahmedabad-Mumbai railway line and entered a tent where it started barking agitatedly making it significantly clear that she arrived at her goal leading to the arrest of six men on Tuesday. Jawa proved why dogs have an edge in detection they smell first, see and lastly hear for clues at a crime spot exactly the opposite of what human investigators do.

As for Jawa, this detection has been a hat trick for the 18-monthold canine within 45 days, which had earlier helped in detection of a murder in the neighbouring Chhota Udepur district and more recently, found out a murder weapon in Vadu. In this case, the mother of three children was gang-raped by six men in a farm where she was cutting grass as per her daily routine, on the outskirts of Dethan village of Karjan taluka on the evening of August 16. The accused later strangled her to death fearing detection. The body was found around 9 pm by her family who were searching for her as she failed to return home till late.

Investigation revealed that the six accused had planned to target the woman when they saw her crossing the railway tracks to go to work on the farm on August 16 evening. Sometime after 6.30 pm, after their work by the railway tracks was over, they attacked her, said, cops. All six men held her hands and legs while they all took turns to rape her. Fearing that she will approach the police, they decided to kill her and with such ferocity that while strangling her with a dupatta, they even snapped her spinal cord.

News Source : HummingZone