After over a week police are still clueless about the killers of a taxi driver who was murdered on May 27 near Rehti under Obedullahganj police station area.
Police teams have been formed and dispatched to investigate the nearby areas where the body of 35-year-old Zafar Khan was found on May 27.
Initially when the body was recovered the local police was not able to establish the identity. And on June 2, after victim’s wife lodged a complaint with the Ashoka Garden police it was found that the descriptions of the body found in Rehti and that of the victim are similar and later it was confirmed that the body is of Zafar Khan.
Senior police officers have claimed that vital clues have been found in the investigation and the killers would be traced soon. The possibility of using the vehicle for another crime could not be ruled out but still the vehicle remained untraced.
Earlier, a 35-year-old taxi driver who went missing on May 26 from Ashoka Garden area was found murdered in jungles of Rehati town under Obedullahganj police station area of neighbouring Raisen district.
According to the police, the victim went missing after booked for Pachmari and around four men were scheduled to board the taxi from Habibganjm on May 26.
Victim’s wife Reshma lodged a complaint that her husband Zafar went missing after he was assigned a trip to Pachmarhi and never returned and the vehicle also remained untraceable.
In the initial investigation the police found that the victim had gone for a trip to Pachmari for Baba Travels of Jehangirabad. The travels company confirmed that the taxi was booked for Pachmari by Mohd Khan and the passengers were scheduled to board from Habibganj. The post-mortem report suggested that the victim was strangulated to death and the taxi was taken by the killers.