Acting swiftly after discovery of a shocking double murder in Kuwawala area on intervening night of Saturday and Sunday, police arrested the wife of one of the victims and her paramour on Sunday afternoon. Police is on the lookout for their two accomplices who were hired to kill Rajesh Rana and his father Prem Singh Rana.
A patrol team from Doiwala police station had found a car left abandoned along the national highway in Kuwawala and found two bodies inside wrapped in blankets.
The Dehradun senior superintendent of police, Sweety Agarwal inspected the crime scene and constituted six teams immediately after the bodies with throats slit were found in a car. Dipika Rana wife of deceased Rajesh Rana had informed Raipur police station on Saturday night that her husband and father in- law, who had left for Bulandshahr (Uttar Pradesh) on Saturday morning, had not reached Bulandshahr. The police team checked the call details of Rajesh which showed his location in the Mianwala area on the outskirts of Dehradun city. The police team investigating the case got suspicious of the activities and contradicting statements being made by Dipika. The police soon found out that that she had a strained relationship with her husband who was also the father of their six-year old child. The police also found out that she had become close to one Yogesh Arora who used to live in a rented house in Tapovan colony near Nanoorkheda where the Ranas resided. The two were in a relationship and Dipika had even given financial assistance to Yogesh to start a restaurant. The police team using methods of criminal psychology interrogated Dipika as her role was under suspicion. She broke down and confessed to her involvement in the heinous crime. Dipika told the police that on the intervening night of Friday and Saturday when her husband and father in-law were fast asleep, she opened the door of the house for Yogesh and his two friends. The culprits strangulated Rajesh and his father using a nylon rope. The accused even slit their throats to ensure that they were dead. Dipika told the police that the head of dead were wrapped in plastic bags to prevent blood from spilling out. After committing the crime the murderers wrapped the bodies in blankets and placed them in the car of Ranas. The body of Rajesh was folded in to boot of the car while body of Prem Singh was put on the back seat. The culprits then cleaned the scene of crime and tried to dispose off the bodies. Based on the confession of Dipika the police then located Yogesh from Govindgarh area. He also confessed to his involvement in the double-murder. He told the police that after disposing of the materials used in the murder in the wooded area in ladpur he drove the car carrying the dead bodies of Rajesh and his father to Kuwawala and tried to set the car on fire. He doused the car with petrol and set it on fire but in this attempt his hands and face were scalded. Yogesh disclosed that two professional criminals of western Uttar Pradesh used to frequent his restaurant and they demanded a sum of Rs five lakh for killing Rajesh and his father. He claimed that he had given a sum of Rs 50,000 as advance payment to the criminal duo.
The police teams led by the superintendent of police (SP) City, Ajay Singh, SP Rural, Shweta Choubey and SP crime had policemen from Doiwala, Raipur and Kotwali police stations and members of Special Operation Group (SOG). Appreciating the police teams for swift action and arrest of culprits the Dehradun SSP Sweety Agarwal declared a cash reward of Rs 2500. She told the media persons that the police are on a look out for two others involved in the crime. Dipika and Yogesh were also paraded by the police before the media.