One person was murdered and another injured in the Nehru Colony area when three criminals attacked the duo with knives while attempting to ‘rob’ them on Sunday.
Nehru Colony Police Station in-charge Amarjeet Singh claimed that the offenders who were identified as Aditya, Rohit Chauhan and Pratik Tiwari, residents of Karanpur, were arrested. Their interrogation was on at the time of this report being filed.
Singh said that police had recovered two doses of smack weighing 0.5 grams from the accused. The deceased has been identified as 22-year-old Tehri resident Saurabh Joshi, whereas seriously injured person was identified as Aashu alias Vijayveer, Doiwala resident.
The incident took place at 1 pm at Mohkampur. Police rushed to the incident site after being informed. Singh said that Saurabh Joshi died while being taken in the ambulance, whereas Aashu was admitted in the Doon Hospital. An FIR under sections 302 and 307 the IPC has been lodged against the trio in the Nehru Colony police station.
Sources revealed that Saurabh and Aashu were walking in Mohkampur area carrying two doses of smack. They had an argument with the trio Aditya, Rohit and Pratik when they refused to provide them smack.
later, the trio attacked them with knives to snatch the smack. They ran with the smack after injuring the duo.