Indore DIG Santosh Singh has given strict directives to the police officials of Indore district to patrol on highways round the clock and to check the suspicious vehicles and people.
The directives came after an incident of murder of a truck driver and a cleaner came to fore on August 14, 2016.
On the day, head constable Roshan and Babu Singh posted at Rau police station were checking the vehicles on toll booth of Rau- Pithampur four-lane. At night around 2.30 pm a truck bearing registration number MP 09 KB 7764 when stopped and when the papers of truck were asked by the policemen, the driver told that he has no papers and immediately he got down and fled away.
The cops when entered into the truck cabin two bodies were found in the truck and one person was hiding. On interrogation, he told his name as Rahul of Methwada. He told that he and his friend Sunil loaded a truck number MH 18 AC 2399 with Soyabean from Sanwer Tehsil of Indore district and drove towards Mumbai to deliver the Soyabean.
In the night 1.45 pm they parked their truck near Kamakshi transport AB road and my friend Sunil peeped into other parked truck carrying iron rods.
He and Sunil stabbed the driver and cleaner of the truck to death. Then they drove that truck and were passing through this toll road and police caught them.
The police registered a case under sections 302, 394 and 34 of the IPC and arrested Rahul.
Indore west SP D Kalyan Chakravaty, formed a team under Addl SP Mhow Vivek Singh consisting of SDOP Mhow Arun Mishra, TI Kishanganj Rakesh Modi, TI Manpur Kamlesh Sharma to arrest the other accused involved in this murder.
On the tip of the informer, on Thursday, police arrested Sunil son of Raju Bheel near Tihi village when he was coming from bus to Indore from Gujri.
On arresting accused Sunil he told that the businessmen of Gujri Hemant had asked him to loot the truck and he will sell the truck and the goods and will give them good amount of money.