Friday 15 / November / 2024
Muscat/Thiruvanathapuram: “His daughter’s education and her getting a good job was his dream. He used to spend a lot on that. Without seeing that success, he has gone.”
These were the words of Prakash Kesavan, elder brother of Indian expat cash collector Satyan, who was murdered on Tuesday in what police believe was a robbery.
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Satyan, 50, was found by a flatmate sitting upright in a chair in his Muttrah apartment. His throat had been cut. The Royal Oman Police (ROP)said “early investigations” show that the “possible motive was robbery”.
The ROP confirmed that two Bangladeshi nationals have been detained for questioning over the murder. Police officers detained Satyan’s six flatmates on Tuesday and released them on Wednesday morning.
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His wife Praseeda, back home in Kerala, India, collapsed when she heard the news and is now in hospital. Speaking from the family home to Times of Oman, elder brother Prakash and neighbours described the murder victim as “a gem” and “a good human being”.
The couples’ only child, daughter Swati, has completed Btech and was attending coaching class to appear for Mtech entrance exam in Bangalore. She was returning to the family home in Thirumala, near Thiruvananthapuram, yesterday.
“When I opened the door of our flat, the floor was full of blood and I saw Satyan sitting in a chair with blood on his body,” his flatmate, who declined to be named, told the Times of Oman.
“His eyes were open when I saw him and so I tried to call him two or three times, but he didn’t respond,” he added.
“There were bloodstains on the walls inside the kitchen too. He was brutally harmed,” he added.
Satyan, who was working as a foreman in a company in Oman, was found dead in Muttrah, near the Today Express Hypermarket, on Tuesday evening.
According to sources, Satyan’s job was daily collection of cash.
“He used to stay in the office until 12.30 in the afternoon and after that he would leave for his room with the day’s collection amount. Later in the evening, he deposited that money in our office in Muttrah,” he said.
“He used to carry a plastic bag in which he kept his purse, which had the company’s daily collections, and he used to travel in taxis,” Satyan’s relative, who is also a flatmate, said.
“He was a good human being. Nobody had a complaint about him and he had given jobs to many,” the relative added.
He added that the company officials have informed him that the body will be repatriated soon as the post-mortem gets over and police release the body.
“His daughter’s education and her getting a good job was his dream. He used to spend a lot for that. Without seeing the success, he has gone,” Prakash Kesavan, the victim’s elder brother, said, speaking from the family home in Kerala, India.
“After completing B. Tech, Swati was attending coaching classes in Bangalore, Karnataka, to appear for her Master’s in Technology entrance examinations. “She is a studious girl. As she was their only child, he had high hopes. Unfortunately, without seeing his dream come true of his one and only daughter getting a good job, he has gone,” Prakash added.
Satyan, who had last visited home at the end of 2014, had been working in Oman for 24 years and had plans to visit home in the coming weeks, according to his elder brother.
Hearing the news, his devastated wife, Praseeda Satyan, collapsed and was rushed to hospital.
“Satyan used to call his wife at 8am and 2pm daily. However, on Tuesday, he failed to call at 2pm. As she sensed it unusual, she made calls to his friends. As they were also not picking up her calls, she panicked. Since then, she is not in a normal condition,” Prakash added.
Meanwhile, shocked neighbours told the Times of Oman that Satyan was a kind person.
“He didn’t have any bad habits. He was a god-fearing person and loved his family a lot. He was good with us all. He used to share time with us whenever he used to come on leave. We can’t believe that this kind of tragedy could happen to him,” Satyan’s neighbours told Times of Oman.
In June an Indian fuel station employee in Sunainah, near Ibri, was kidnapped and his body was found three days later by police in Masrooq with gunshot wounds.
Six Omanis were held over the kidnapping, robbery and murder.
Last April, an Indian nurse was murdered at her residence in Salalah province, southern Oman. She had stab marks on her body and her husband is in police custody as part of the investigation.
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