For more than four hours Kolar police and senior police officials struggled to convince a murder suspect of fair investigation, to bring him down from fifth floor of a building. The drama concluded at around 5.30 pm.
The incident was reported at Ashirwad colony in Kolar area. The suspect identified as Vijay Shrivastava escaped from police custody, after he was detained at Bilkharia police station in suspect of murder of a truck driver who was killed few days ago. The Bilkharia police had taken Vijay to Kolar for further investigation regarding the murder but he managed to escape and climbed the building and reached terrace where he started threatening that he has been falsely framed in the case.
As soon as the suspect climbed the terrace local residents and police gathered near the building but the suspect started threatening to commit suicide by jumping from the terrace and demanded fair investigation in the murder case.
After the suspect climbed it attracted more attention and local corporator arrived at the spot and tried to convince him but he refused to come down. later, when SP Bhopal South Rahul Kumar lodha intervened and assured fair investigation, the suspect came down and he was taken in police custody.
SP Bhopal South Rahul Kumar lodha told ‘The Pioneer’ that it would be probed whether the suspect was involved in the crime or not and this could only be revealed during the investigation. He has assured that fair investigation would be conducted after which Vijay came down from the building.
Police said that the suspect has been in the past booked for theft and serious offences.