Dehradun police have arrested the main accused in the murder of Ved Prakash who was strangled to death in Sabhawala area on Tuesday. The accused has been identified as Sabhawala resident Sonu.
In the course of interrogation, the accused confessed his crime stating that he had murdered Ved Prakash because he was abusing a widow relative of his (Sonu’s) while maintaining a live-in relationship with her. Prakash was unmarried and stayed in a live-in relationship with the widow who has five children. He used to allegedly get drunk regularly and physically abuse the widow and her children. Irked over this, Sonu hatched a plan to murder Ved Prakash. On Monday night, Sonu and Ved Prakash went to a field in the area where both of them drank liquor. As he had planned, Sonu consumed little of the liquor as Ved Prakash drank more. Using a handkerchief twisted rope-like, Sonu strangled him to death on Monday night. Police recovered handkerchief, liquor bottles and other items from him, said CO SK Singh.
He said that murdered man’s brother Sahaspur resident Sumer Chandra had informed the police about his brother’s body being found in the field on Tuesday. The police team formed to handle this case was able to apprehend the main accused within 12 hours of murder being reported to the police.