The Srinagar police have claimed to have achieved breakthrough regarding the murder case involving an unidentified youth whose body wrapped in a plastic bag was found by police on the night of January 29. Two of the accused of the case have been arrested while the third accused is still on the run. The motive of the murder might be black mailing, said police, adding that they were also probing the case from a sex angle.
Srinagar police Kotwali had found the body of a person kept in a plastic bag from GI&TI Road on January 29 night. The victim could not be identified as his face was badly disfigured.
Several teams had been constituted subsequently to crack the murder case by SSP Jagat Ram Joshi . The constituted police teams comprised specialists in CCTV footage analysis, electronic surveillance and forensic. SHO Kotwali Srinagar Narendra Singh Bisht had been made the investigating officer of the case.
As per police, the disfigured face of the victim was reconstructed through the computer graphics for identification. Subsequently, it had been found to be of Anish, son of Raheesh, resident of Kila Manglaur, Haridwar district. When contacted, the family members had said that Amish had gone to Srinagar on January 28 to meet someone. Investigation had revealed that Anish was last seen with one identified as Sameer Ahmed of Niyajipura, Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh who ran a garment business in Srinagar. When grilled, Sameer had broken down and said that he had murdered Anish with two of his friends, police informed. Police further said that Anish was believed to be blackmailing Sameer over a sexual relation. With Anish raising the sum of blackmailing, Sameer had hatched a plan to murder him along with his friends.
However, police have refused to disclose who had been arrested and who of the trio was still on the run.