Sleuths of Special Task Force (STF), on Saturday, successfully nabbed the absconding accused in Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader Sarvesh Singh Cipu’s murder case.
The miscreant identified as Arvind Kashyap of Azamgarh was arrested from Ashapur locality in Varanasi district with the help of the SWAT team of Azamgarh police. According to police, the police teams hunting Arvind got a tip off that he would travel for Ashapur from Saidpur locality on Saturday. The cops worked on the lead and laid a trap near Ashapur crossing and nabbed him when reached there.
The police said Arvind was among the criminals who were involved in the murder of Cipu and his friend on August 17 this year. The police said 17 cases pending on the arrested criminal and the state police had announced a reward of Rs 5,000 on him. During the interrogation, Arvind owned up that he was driving the car which was involved in the shoot out in which BSP leader was shot. The police said Arvind is a henchman of dreaded criminal Mahendra Rajbhar and he was presently working for Dhruv Singh aka Kuntu Singh. The police said there were crime cases against Arvind in Varanasi, Jaunpur and Azamgarh also. After the killing of Cipu and his friend, violence broke out in which three people were killed.