Dehradun police have arrested one Avdesh Mishra, native of Bhind, Madhya Pradesh, who is currently living in Beer Gabber Singh Basti on Canal Road in Rajpur on the charge of murdering his father in-law Rajkumar, native of Singhpur, Panna, Madhya Pradesh, on late Monday evening.
He escaped after committing the murder. Police seized the pistol from which the shot was fired along with two cartridges from the possession of the accused.
Deceased’s wife Sevkal registered a complaint and a case under section 302 of IPC was registered against the accused in Rajpur police station.
On being informed of the murder by the relatives of the deceased, Dehradun senior superintendent of police (SSP) Sweety Agarwal, SP City Ajay Singh and Rajpur police station in-charge Pradeep Sing Rawat rushed to the spot and started investigation. later, the police team raided several places in search of the accused. The accused was arrested late Monday night. While being grilled, the accused has admitted the crime, police said. A police officer probing the case said that the accused had admitted to have shot his father- in- law after an altercation broke out. It is further learnt that several persons who had lent the accused money used to come to Rajkumar’s residence at Canal Road where the accused was staying to demand the money back. As an annoyed Rajkumar asked his son-in-law to leave his residence after some lenders made a scene there the accused in a fit of anger fired shot at him from a firearm collected some time back, said the police officer.
He also informed that after committing the murder, the accused had entered the rooms of his two brothers in laws- Mahesh and Rajesh-and threatened to kill them too.
However, the duo managed to snatch the pistol from Avdesh. Rajkumar was rushed to Doon Hospital where he was declared brought dead.