On death of a woman living in Saraswati Vihar, Adhaiwala area in Raipur on June 19 case, Dehradun police have arrested Gurbhej from Karanpur and recovered stolen items from his possession. The accused is learnt to have confessed that he along his friend Saurabh had strangled the woman to death to rob her house. Team members are working hard to arrest another accused Saurabh, said SP City Ajay Singh on Friday.
He said that in course of interrogation, Gurbhej said that both had hatched a plan to rob her house. However, Saurabh had strangled the woman to death when they were robbing the house. Gurbhej is further learnt to have said that he used to visit Hardayal Singh, a tenant of the same house owned by Nagliya. Gurbhej had identified himself to Hardayal as priest of Gurudwara. Saurabh had met Gurbhej and said that he needed a room for rent. Gurbhej and Saurabh had met Nagliya for a room to be taken on rent in her house. Both had seen Nagliya wearing gold chain and other gold items. Both had hatched a plan to rob her house after knowing that the woman had been living alone with jewellery, scooty and other valuable items.
Both had met the woman around five times regarding the room being taken on rent. As per the plan, the duo had mixed some poison substances in her water bottle. She had fallen on the ground, unconscious. Then Saurabh had strangled her to death.
After being informed that putrid smell was coming out from the house, police had broken the door open and found Nagliya lying on the ground. Her body had been in a decomposed state. Police had sent the body for postmortem. However, the autopsy report failed to identify the cause of her death. The police had kept viscera for further investigation. The deceased’s daughter Ronika had found jewellery, scooty and other items from the house missing. She had met the SSP. Following the direction of SSP, several teams were formed to crack the case.