A 20-year-old student of a private nursing college who went missing on July 1 was found dead at Mandideep on Wednesday; two accused involved in killing the youth have been nabbed while two are still absconding.
According to the police, the body of the missing youth was found after the accused confessed the killing of the youth from Mandideep. The deceased was identified as Rambabu Meena who went missing from Bagh Sewania and a missing complaint of the same was lodged with the police on July 2.
SP Bhopal (North) Arvind Saxena said that the three were caught in CCTV city surveillance camera and later the mobile phone locations of the accused were traced. The vital clue was provided by a girl who revealed that the deceased.
On July 2 missing complaint was lodged after the family of the deceased failed to find him who left the house to drop his friend at railway station and on July 2 the family received a ransom call demanding Rs 15 lakh, he added.
SP Saxena told that iIn the initial investigation it was found that Govind and Rohitraj had fight over a girl and Govind reprimanded Rohit after which he decided to kill Govind and with the help of Devendra, Jeetu and lalu killed Govind.
The hands and legs of the deceased were tied and he was thrown into a canal in Mandideep. Rohitraj and lalu have been nabbed while search for the two absconding miscreants has been intensified.
The death was confirmed from the location of the deceased. The accused demanded ransom of Rs 15 lakh after killing Govind. Mobile phone used in demanding ransom was recovered from the nabbed accused.
lalau alias Shivpal (25) of Nayapura works as electrician while Devendra Didhore (28), Radhyeshyam alias Monu alias Rohitraj (28) and Jeetu alias Jitendra Amrite (30) of Betul and work as helper and conductor with Verma bus services. The three used to live in Bhopal and Mandideep.