The Pauri police arrested one murder accused from Dehradun and brought him back to Pauri for his alleged role in the murder of a Nepali man committed on April 24, 2016. A police team from the Pauri Kotwali arrested the accused man Prakash Bisht, a native of Nepal, at Dehradun acting on a tip off from an informer on March 7 and brought him to Pauri Kotwali. The second accused and brother in-law of the victim, Sansar Bhandari is still absconding though the police have secured some important clues related to him and necessary action is currently in progress. The Pauri senior superintendent of Police Mukhtar Mohsin presented Rs.2500 cash reward to the police team which arrested the accused. The police produced the accused in the court of the chief judicial magistrate from where he has been sent to 14 days judicial custody.
Taking to media persons at Pauri Kotwali, the district SSP said that the accused man arrested by the Kotwali police team had said that he and Sansar Bhandari had killed Man Bahadur by hitting him on the head with a stone after which they concealed his dead body in the bushes. The police investigation further revealed that there was some conflict between Man Bhadur and his brother in law Sansar. According to the police, on the morning of April 25, 2016, Gram Prehari of Gadoli, Sushil Kumar informed the police that the watchman of a convent school property in Gadoli had told him that the dead body of one Nepali has been found hidden in the bushes. The police recovered the body and also found a stone stained with blood lying nearby. After the police identified the body, Dev Raj, brother of the murder victim lodged a complaint with the police, based on which a case was registered against Bisht and Bhandari under section 302 and 201 of Indian Penal Code.