Intensifying efforts to nab the two killers of Hindu outfit leader Kamlesh Tewari, the Uttar Pradesh Police on Monday declared a reward of Rs 2.5 lakh each for the information leading to the arrest of the two murderers. Director General of Police OP Singh announced the award.
Meanwhile, a suspect named Sayed Asim Ali was arrested in Nagpur on Monday following a tip-off by the Nagpur unit of the Anti-Terrorists Squad (ATS).
Police said the two fugitive killers, on whom the award has been announced, had come to a hotel in Lucknow on October 17 and identified themselves as Sheikh Ashfaqul Hussain and Muinuddin Pathan. On the day of murder, both of them moved out of the hotel, wearing saffron kurta, and there was a box of sweets in their hand.
Meanwhile, the agencies investigating the case brought the conspirators arrested in Surat to Lucknow on transit remand for questioning.
On the basis of the confession during the investigation, cops recovered blood-stained saffron clothes and a blood-stained knife from a room of the hotel in Kaiserbagh police station area post midnight on Sunday.