Renowned Homeopathic doctor of Etawah, who disappeared under mysterious circumstances and a ransom of Rs 55 lakh was demandd from his family on September 14, was killed the same day and his body was dumped to conceal the crime. The sensational facts surfaced after three of the accused were arrestyed and grilled on Monday. Efforts were now on to search for his body.
The Etawah police on Monday claimed to have arrested Hargovind aka Situ, Ankit and Ram Prakash (victim’s maternal uncle) for being involved in the sensational kidnapping and murder of Dr Gyan Prakash Pandey. The trio revealed that on the fateful day, they kidnapped the doctor on a Scorpio ((UP32EV-9977) and later hacked him to death and dumped his body in Bhognipur canal.
They later made a call to his family and demanded a Rs 55 lakh ransom for his release. The cops recovered clothes, murder weapons and the Scorpio vehicle used in the crime but were yet to trace the body and efforts were underway to fish out the body from the canal.
Dr Pandey used to run a private clinic in Karhal of Mainpuri, left his New Friends colony residence at Etawah to reach his clinic on a bus in the morning of Sptember 14. However, when he did not reach the clinic till the afternoon, some patients and his staff contacted his Etawh home over phone to confirm his whereabouts from his family.
later, the family members launched a search and his wife Vimla Devi informed the police. later some one called the family in the evening and announced his abduction and demanded a ransom for his release.
Meanwhile the arrest of Hargovind aka Situ in connection with the muder of Dr Pandey also helped the Etawah Police to unravel the blind murder of 12-year-old Ashu from the field at Bhathana on September 13. The boy was brutally stabbed to death after he saw his neighbour in a compromising position.
While quizzing Hargovind, the cops came to know that Hargovind had been hired to eliminate Ashu for Rs 1 lakh. Hargovind told the police that Ashu was playing in the fields when he saw Satyaveer in a compromising position. Fearing that the boy would reveal about his affair to locals, Satyaveer gave him Rs 1 lakh to eliminate Ashu. Efforts were now on to nab Satyaveer.