City police claimed to have foiled a conspiracy to kill an undertrial criminal during a court hearing on Thursday by arresting five miscreants in the alleged plot.
The police also recovered three country-made pistols and three sharp-edged weapons from their possession. All the accused have been identified as Faizan, Neetesh Sonone, Shafeeq, Shahrukh and Golu alias Sumeet Makheeja. A police officer investigating the case said the conspiracy was related to the killing of one Mukesh Yadav at MP Nagar area in 2011. Interestingly, most of the conspirators were serving a jail term for their crimes.
Faizan was serving a jail term of 7 years in robbery case and was released on bail by the high court. Shadab had attacked a jail inmate during his jail term last year. All the nabbed accused hold criminal record and have served jail term. A police officer said Shadab, Asif, Suraj Tiwari, Neetesh, Pankaj, Anas, Habib, Mohsin and Umashankar were in the jail in the murder case.
Shadab alias Zehreela and Asif believed that Surja was responsible for rejection of their bail applications after which they planned to kill him. They arranged to meet Shafee , Faizan, Neetesh, Sumeet and Shahrukh and conspired to provide a country-made pistol and was to be used to kill Suraj when he was brought in a court premise. However, their plan was foiled before execution.