A crime branch team of the Gurugram police has arrested a wanted criminal carrying a bounty of `20,000 in connection with the two murder cases that he had committed in Gurugram, police said. The accused was identified as Satyapriya Saini, a resident of Dehradun, Uttarakhand, who had been absconding since 2020.

According to the police, Saini had killed Satyaveer Singh Malik, who was the sub-inspector in the Cooperative Department, in January 2021. In this case, the Gurugram police had announced ` 20,000 on his arrest; however, in this murder case, the police had also nabbed his woman accomplice earlier in 2021. The accused was also absconding in another murder case of a woman, which was related to the Udyog Vihar Police Station area of Gurugram in 2020.

During the investigation, a police team led by Sub-Inspector Lalit Kumar arrested the absconding accused in Dehradun on Friday and took him on police remand after producing him before the court. According to the police, a Manesar police team of the Gurugram police had received information on January 13, 2021, regarding a person was lying near a car near the Polytechnic College on the service road towards Panchgaon on NH-48.

On receiving the information, the police team reached the spot and informed the victim’s family. The victim was shifted to the hospital, where the doctors declared the victim dead.

Based on the deceased’s son complaint, police register a case; however, after an autopsy report of the victim, a murder section was also added to the FIR at the Manesar police station. “During police interrogation, it was found that the accused Satyapriya, along with his woman associate, had killed the victim due to a monetary dispute. He killed the victim by hitting him with a pickup vehicle at the behest of the female accused and tried to show it as an accident.

Additionally, in the other case, the accused had also confessed that he had also killed a woman identified as Laxmi and dumped her body in Roorkee in 2020. This case was related to Udyog Vihar police station, Gurugram,” Sandeep Kumar, spokesperson of the Gurugram police, said.