In a dramatic turn of events, one of the killers of a bank manager’s wife and son in Meerut committed suicide before police could arrest him.
This sensational disclosure was made by the Meerut police who claimed to have cracked the case on Thursday. They claimed that the eight months pregnant wife and five-year-old son of the Punjab National Bank manager in Hastinapur were murdered over a family dispute.
“The murder of the bank manager’s wife Shikha and son Rudransh in Hastinapur was executed by his own brother-in-law Harish along with his two friends,” Meerut police claimed while also confirming that one of the accused ended life fearing arrest.
The police said that during Harish’s interrogation, it surfaced that after committing the murder, the two accused reached Noida via Meerut on Shikha’s scooty. They claimed that Ravi, an accused in this case whom they were looking for, shot himself in Hapur on Thursday morning. The accused took this step after the arrest of the bank manager’s brother-in-law.
The house of PNB (Jalilpur, Bijnor) manager Sandeep Kumar is near Ramlila Ground in Hastinapur. On Monday, Sandeep’s pregnant wife Shikha and five-year-old son Rudransh were murdered. The bodies were recovered from bed boxes in separate rooms. The miscreants had also locked the main gate of the house before fleeing.
They were nabbed on the basis of call detail records and CCTV footage. The police said Harish, along with his accomplices, strangulated his sister-in-law Shikha, her minor son Rupansh inside their house in Hastinapur on Monday and later stuffed the bodies inside the boxes of beds in two different rooms.
The accused also made off with over Rs 2 lakh in cash and ornaments worth Rs 15 lakh.
SSP Rohit Singh Sajwan said that Harish confessed to his crime. Sandeep Kumar had a tussle with Harish. Sandeep had asked Harish to stay away from his family.