Police are yet to make any arrest in the case of a 25-year-old goat trader’s murder. The deceased was stabbed to death in Qazi Camp locality under Hanumanganj area on Saturday. The victim Sameer was stabbed to death near his shop by Ahmed and after a money dispute, which trailed for long and caused fights earlier between victim and accused. City Superintendent of Police Navratan Singh said that the police have obtained the whereabouts of the accused and he would be nabbed soon. Search for Ahmed, Arif, Faizan and other accused have been intensified.
The police on Sunday faced a difficult situation at the mortuary after the post-mortem of the deceased as the deceased was a Hindu and accepted Islam around eight years ago and after the arrival of deceased’s family, the question of performing last rites was raised. The question that the last rites would be done according to Islamic rituals or Hindu rituals was raised, but later, the family accepted the Islamic rituals, but demanded to look the deceased before the last rites.
On Saturday after the murder, police find it hard to contain the huge mob gathered in support of the two groups and was later pacified after the intervention of the senior police officials, who assured that the accused would be nabbed soon and justice would be done.
A case under section 302 of the IPC was registered by the police and further investigations has been started. Notably, around four armed miscreants attacked the victim, Sameer at Qazi Camp and fled the spot. The victim was rushed to Hamidia hospital where he was declared dead. The victim and accused parties were engaged in goat trading. Sameer owns a shop at Qazi Camp, where the fight took place.