About 20 days having passed since a Nepali labourer was murdered here, the Pauri police have not yet been able to arrest the two main accused persons in the murder case.
Hailing from Muktikot village in Bajura district of Nepal, Man Bahadur was found to have been murdered on the night of April 4. Pauri police Kotwali SHO Bl Bharti said that one police team was deputed to trace the accused in the murder case but could not trace the whereabouts of the accused because they had switched off their mobile phones which prevented the police team from putting them under surveillance. With teams of the district police returning to their posts in Pauri on Sunday from their deployment for Ardh Kumbh Mela, other teams will also be deployed for conducting the search operation.
It is pertinent to mention here that the Pauri Kotwali police has registered a case under section 302 of the Indian Penal Code against Sansar Bhandari, a resident of village Kayal and Prakash a resident of Thola village on the basis of police complaint lodged by the murder victim’s brother Devraj. Both the accused persons hail from the Bajura district of Nepal.
Pauri police Kotwali SHO Bl Bharti said the murder of Man Bahadur hailing from neighbouring nation Nepal was committed on the night of Monday, April 4. The murder was stated to have been committed in Gadoli area at a spot under the land jurisdiction of St Thomas School. Bharti said that Man Bahadur had gone to visit the house of the village watchman on the Monday night in question.
Then the two main accused men—Prakash and Sansar Bhandari had also reached the house of the village watchman. later, on the next day the body of Man Bahadur was spotted by a person going towards the woods. The body had been dumped in the bushes and hidden by grass. The man informed the village watchman about the spotting of Bahadur’s body.
The village watchman in turn informed the police about the same on the morning following the night Bahadur was murdered.
Responding to the information relayed, the police reached the location of crime. On the basis of police complaint lodged by Devraj, the brother of the murdered man, the police booked a case under section 302 of the Indian Penal Code against the two murder accused men hailing from Nepal.
According to the police officer, following the return on Sunday of police personnel to Pauri from their Ardh Kumbh Mela deployment, the search for the murder accused is slated to be expanded further.
The police plan to form more teams within the next couple of days and send these to conduct the search operation for nabbing the murder accused. The police hope to trace out the murder accused in the near future, opined the officer.