The court of chief judicial magistrate has handed over the allegedly accused Sudha Patwal and Hari Om Vashishth to police on two-day police remand in the murder case of Yudhveer Singh Rawat, Ex-PRO of Uttarakhand Cabinet Minister Harak Singh Rawat on Wednesday. It may be noted here that police had recovered Yudhveer’s body near Sai Mandir area at Rajpur Road on August 9.
Mussoorie CO Jaya Baloni said that police had filed an application for police remand of the accused in the court for further investigation on August 19. The court handed over both the accused to police on police remand for August 22-23. Both the accused will be interrogated to ascertain whether anyone else was involved in the murder. Based on interrogation report of the accused, further evidence will be collected to make the case against the accused strong, she added.
Baloni said that police teams have been deployed at different places in Haridwar and other districts of Uttar Pradesh to arrest two other accused Umesh Chaudhary and Sanjeev. Several cases of murder against Chaudhary and Sanjeev have already been registered in the police stations of Meerut, Shamli, Haridwar and Ghaziabad earlier.
In connection with the murder of Rawat, the police had arrested Indra Nagar Colony resident Sudha Patwal and Meerut (Uttar Pradesh) native Hari Om Vashishth on August 12 and 13 respectively. During interrogation, Patwal admitted that she had taken Rs 14 lakh from Yudhveer Singh for enrolling a candidate in MBBS degree course in Shri Guru Ram Rai Institute of Medical and Health Sciences. Vashishth admitted that Patwal had offered Rs five lakh to murder Yudhveer. Sources said that after murdering Rawat, Patwal had made a plan to throw his body in a river but she failed to do so.
However, Pradeep Singh Rawat, brother of Yudhveer had recently demanded that the State Government direct a high-level inquiry like a CBI probe into the murder of his brother.k