Bhopal

Cops nab 3 for murder, robberies

Staff Reporter

Nishatpura police have nabbed three miscreants who were involved in killing a cement trader in 2013 at Bagh Sewania area. The nabbed accused persons ha d also committed burglaries and robberies in the past.

According to police, acting on a tip-off, two youths were nabbed from Best price store with a motorbike and when the two were not able to provide the details of the bike. They were detained and interrogated in which they confessed the stealing of motorbike and killing of a cement trader Ratan Jaiswal in Bagh Sewania area in 2013.

The nabbed miscreants were identified as Mohammad Shakir alias Bhura (35), Farhan Khan (23) and Brijesh Ahirwar (32).

Accused were acquainted with the deceased and the main accused Shakir used to provide trucks for transporting cement. Shakir confessed that he was facing financial problems and was not able to pay the installments of his trucks and was aware that Jaiswal used to collect around Rs3-4 lakh at the closing of the day and decided to rob

the deceased along with Farhan and Brijesh and killed him for money.

On the day of the murder, when the deceased was on

his way to home, he was stopped near his shop at Dhamkheda and miscreants boarded the vehicle and killed the deceased and later, escaped with his wallet carrying Rs2,07,000 and three gold rings.

The deceased was strangulated and later stabbed to death. During the investigation, wallet of deceased was recovered from Nadra bus stand while a mobile phone was recovered from Damkheda and other mobile phone was recovered from Rapadia Jod.

The three have committed theft and robbery in the past few years.  Accused confessed stealing truck from Sehore, motorbikes from Ayodhya bypass, chain loot at Vidisha culvert and around 250 bags of cement from Bangarasia.