Haryana Police on Sunday nabbed suspended Chandigarh constable Basant Kumar alias Bunty and his woman accomplice from Delhi, prime suspects in the murder case of Chandigarh police inspector Sucha Singh.
Police also recovered a carbine from his possession. Bunty is also accused in other two murder cases in Sonepat.
Haryana Police confirmed that Basant Kumar alias Bunty, the escapee constable of UT Police and his accomplice Sarita, have been arrested from a hotel at Paharganj area in Delhi on late Saturday night. They had allegedly killed Chandigarh Police Inspector Sucha Singh and seriously injured his driver in Chandigarh on June 8.
Rohtak Range Inspector General of Police, AK Rao said that the arrests were made by Sonepat Police, and further investigations are under progress.”
Absconder Kumar was on the run for more than 50 days after a double murder. On April 18, Basant Kumar had killed a 55-year-old woman, Roshni, and her son Sandeep, 23, with his service weapon at village Dipalpur in Sonipat and absconded with a newly-wed woman Sarita, with whom he allegedly had an affair. Sarita had been married to Sandeep for just three days when the constable attacked and killed the mother-son duo.
According to Haryana police, during preliminary investigations, Kumar has confessed murdering Chandigarh Inspector Sucha Singh and injuring his driver Jatinder Singh on June 8 in Chandigarh.
Kumar and his woman accomplice was stopped by Sucha Singh and his driver in the wee hours on Saturday near Sector 17 Police Station. However, the duo had stabbed the two cops after they tried to take them to the nearby Police Station for verification. After the incident, Inspector Sucha Singh, who was posted in the traffic wing, succumbed to the injuries at the Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research on Saturday morning.
Chandigarh police had constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT) under a DSP rank officer to investigate the case. According to local police, the name of Basant and his paramour Sarita had emerged as prime suspects in the case.
They had managed to escape in a police vehicle and later abandoned it near Dhanas village on the outskirts of Chandigarh. Kumar had come from Manali to Chandigarh and was to board a bus for New Delhi on Friday night when he allegedly stabbed the cops, a few metres away from the Sector 17 police station. Police said Kumar had been carrying about `5 lakh cash, and stayed in Rishikesh, Shimla, Manali and other places while he was on the run.
Now, Chandigarh police will try to bring Kumar on transit remand here in Chandigarh.Haryana police had earlier announced a reward of `1 lakh for providing information on Bunty.