About a week after advocate Sushil Raghuvanshi was murdered, the Kotdwar police have not yet traced the culprits. The police are searching for two motorcycle-borne persons who had shot the advocate in the broad daylight in Kotdwar.
The association of advocates in Kotdwar continued its work boycott for the second day on Wednesday in protest against the failure of police to arrest the murder accused. The advocates met the additional superintendent of police at Kotdwar, complaining about the delay by the police in apprehending the culprits.
Earlier, the advocates had also blocked the national highway on Monday and decided to boycott their work till those accused of the murder are arrested. The district senior superintendent of police Jagat Ram Joshi said that he had a conversation with the advocate association and asked them to give some time to police to solve the complicated murder case for which the two bike-borne assailants have be nabbed.
It is pertinent to mention that the Kotdwar police has registered a case under section 302 of Indian Penal Code against eight persons including three who have been named in the report lodged by wife of the deceased, Rekha Rani. The names had been revealed by the decease advocate before his death apart from the two unknown assailants who had shot him twice in the broad daylight at Ratanpur, Bl Road in Kotdwar.
According to information provided by reliable sources, the prime murder suspect is one of the persons named in the report but the police have so far not been able to collect any evidence to incriminate him.
Meanwhile, the police claim to have put their resources into investigating this case with the main focus at present being on apprehending the persons who fatally shot the advocate. The police are investigating all angles in this murder case.