In a swift action taken by the city police for solving the case in which the son of private hotel owner was seriously injured, three suspected accused were arrested by the city police at Motthorowala, Dehradun on Wednesday evening.
The Senior Superintendent of Police of Dehradun Kewal Khurrana, said, “All the accused were arrested, who later accepted their role behind the incident. The accused were identified as Sidharth Rathi alias Honey son of Harish Rathi resident of Muzzafarnagar, Mohit son of Devendra resident of Muzzafarnagar and Vikrant son of Jaiveer resident of Meerut, Uttar Pradesh whereas Narendra Malik son of Shaym Singh resident of Meerut, Amit Nehra son of Anil Nehra resident of Gaziabad, Guddu resident of Gaziabad and Ravi Tomar son of Nathu Singh resident of Muzzafarnagar, who were also involved in the case.”
During interrogation, it was revealed that Narendra Malik and Amit Nehra had invested around `60-70 lakh in Hotel Solitaire and the owner refused to return their invested money even after repeated requests and later all accused had decided to murder the owner or his son over this issue. The investigation team revealed that Vikrant, Mohit, Sidharth, Guddu and Ravi Tomar also involved in the crime.
It is to be noted that Akshat Bansal, son of Hotel Solitaire owner Rishi Bansal, received severe injuries when the accused opened fire on him with a .32 bore pistol while he was coming out of the hotel premises.
Understanding the gravity of the incident, police and special operation group have been deployed at different places in the State and adjacent districts of Uttar Pradesh to nab the criminals. A sum of `15,000, `5,000 and `2,500 was announced by DGP,
DIG and SSP respectively to the team, who has
successfully cracked the case within a month.