City police appear to have achieved breakthrough in Sarafa bullion merchant’s wife murder case which rocked the city a week back. Though police till filing this report were tightlipped about revealing the name of the main accused, sources close to the police department have suspected involvement of a youth Sonu in the murder case.
According to police sources, Sonu used to visit Mini Heights play school located adjacent to the deceased’s house. On the day of incident, he was seen roaming around and from the next day he was reported missing with his mobile switched off.
According to police sources, Sonu’s mobile phone was found switched off from 8 am onward on Tuesday last. According to proprietor of the play school, Sonu had left the city on Tuesday stating that his grandmother had died. However, a police inquiry found the news of his grandmother’s death as incorrect and false.
According to reliable sources, Indore police on the basis of tipoff, have reportedly arrested Sonu from Ujjain last night but purportedly not revealing the news to the media. It is being presumed that city police may reveal the name of main accused tomorrow as they are working on some other leads related to the incident.
According to report, Sonu frequently used to visit play school of Shazad Irani located nearby the residence of Sarafa trader, for electric and furniture works. Irani on being interrogated by the police, revealed that Sonu also visited the residence of Sarafa trader’s wife Rajkumari Kataria in Baikunthdham colony. On the basis of leads provided to the police, city police were zeroing in its information around Sonu for the past two days.
Few days back, city police had announced a reward of Rs 10,000 on arrest of the accused of sarafa trader’s wife murder case. During the course of probe, city police had also interrogated family members of Kataria syspecting their involvement in the crime but their names were cleared by the police from the list of suspects on Sunday last.
Rajkumari Kataria (55), wife of a Sarafa bullion merchant had been found murdered inside her house in the upscale locality of Baikunth Dham Colony here on Tuesday last. She sustained fatal wounds on head and neck and she was lying in a pool of blood, when neighbours found her. According to Palasia police, the incident came to light when water tanker suppliers came to her house and on repeated knocking she didn't respond.