In a major breakthrough, police team from Tharali police station in Chamoli district arrested the accused of a murder case from Dungri on Monday. The accused of the murder of a woman who had been on the run since January was arrested when he was travelling from Bageshwar to Dehradun in a roadways bus, police said.
Chamoli superintendent of police PRO Ajay Rawat said that Rakesh, resident of village Ritholi, tehsil Karanprayag, had lodged a report in Dungripatwari circle under Tharali tehsil on January 22, alleging that one Pawan, resident of village Dungri under the same tehsil, had set his wife Pushpa Devi ablaze outside Government Ayurvedic Hospital quarter on January 16. “Subsequently, revenue police registered a case against Pawan under section 307 of Indian Penal Code. later, Chamoli district magistrate transferred the case from revenue police to regular police,” he said.
It is learnt that after the case was transferred to regular police, SP Tripti Bhatt asked Tharali police station SHO Sashi Bhushan to investigate the case under the supervision of CO Karanprayag Mithilesh Singh. A team was subsequently constituted to arrest the accused who was absconding while wandering from place to place.
Police said that after Pushpa Devi died in course of treatment the investigating officer changed the section from 307 to 302 of IPC.