In connection with the murder of a youth Nafeez, a resident of Harrawala Chowk, whose body was found in a sack around 100 metres away from his home, Dehradun police have arrested two more accused — Mahipal Singh (40), brother-in-law of main accused Deepak, and Virendra Singh (48), residents of Haridwar, on Thursday.
All the three accused have been interrogated. However, police are yet to arrest one more accused, Shankar. Police had arrested the main accused Deepak, a local small eatery owner, resident of Mohkampur, Nehru Colony on Sunday in the wake of stir and roadblock staged by the local residents. They had blocked the highway at Harrawala on Sunday.
Harrawala Police post in-charge, Manjul Rawat said that teams, which were deployed in Haridwar and neighbouring districts of Uttar Pradesh succeeded in arresting the accused. They will be sent to Suddhowala jail on Friday after being presented in the court.In the course of investigation, the main accused Deepak had confessed to have murdered Nafeez.
According to him, both were friends and they used to consume liquor together. Quite often, they got involved in scuffles over minor issues in inebriated State.On March 13, he had given Rs50 to Nafeez to bring liquor, but Nafeez came to his eatery on Saturday and demanded Rs50.
When he refused to give him money, Nafeez started abusing him. Deepak’s brother-in-law, Mahipal who was at the eatery tried his best to sort things out. However, as Nafeez kept abusing Deepak, Mahipal allegedly held him and Deepak strangled him.
With the assistance of some accomplices, Deepak put the body in a sack and dumped it in a nearby area. Anguished over the incident, the local residents had blocked the national highway on Sunday and protested against the administration’s apathy. They were demanding prompt arrest of all the accused involved in the case.