Twelve days after 70-year- old security guard, Shiv Charan Sharma, who was posted at an Axis Bank ATM a few kilometres away from Police Station ITI, Kashipur, was murdered, Udham Singh Nagar police claimed to have cracked the attempted loot-cum-murder case. According to police, they have arrested three persons — a father and his two sons — involved in it on Friday. The accused have been identified as Parvindar Singh and his sons — Harvindar Singh and Gurpreet Singh, residents of Bajpur, Udham Singh Nagar. The incident happened on August 2 night.
Police had seized .315 bore pistol and three live cartridges from the possession of the arrested trio
Based on the information they got while interrogating them, police had recovered two iron rods which the trio had allegedly used to murder Sharma.
While being grilled, the accused admitted to having committed the murder. They said that after RTO, Bijnor had seized their mini-truck and imposed challan of around `60,000 on their mini-truck they had planned to loot the Axis Bank ATM to pay the amount.
They had conduced recce four days before the attempt. On August 2 night, the accused reached the ATM to loot it. But while the security garud Sharma had resisted them they hit Sharma on his head with rods and pistol butt. The guard died on the spot.
Deceased’s son Satish Kumar Sharma had registered a case under sections 393/302 of IPC in the Police Station, ITI on August 3, stating that his father, a security guard at Alu Farm- based Axis Bank ATM, had been murdered by three unidentified persons. However, they failed to loot the ATM as planned.
ITI Police Station in-charge sub-inspector Harendra Choudhary recovered the CCTV footage and formed a team to review the footage. Investigation based on the CCTV footage revealed that three persons armed with pistols and iron rods had attempted to loot the ATM at gun point. Video footage revealed that one of the accused had been injured in his left leg.
Udham Singh Nagar SSP Nilesh Anand Bharne had formed several teams to crack the case and they were deployed in neighbouring districts of Uttar Pradesh and other places within the district. Tipped that three suspected persons from Bajpur were coming to Kashipur on a motor bike ITI police acted swiftly and arrested them. Uttarakhand DGP BS Sidhu has announced reward of Rs 10, 000 to the teams for cracking the case apart from awarding `5,000 to each of two policemen — Vipin Panthari and Pradeep Kumar — who had proved instrumental in cracking the case.