A High Court advocate Manish Arora, resident of Roorkee, was arrested by the Mallital police in Nainital district on Monday on the charge of murdering his wife for dowry. The accused would be produced in the court on Tuesday.
Notably, the HC had denied giving stay over arrest of the accused’s sister and parents. This case is being monitored by CO City Rakesh Devli.
Padmini, wife of Manish Arora, resident of Gangnahar-Nehru Nagar (Roorkee), died on May 19 under mysterious circumstances. The deceased’s family alleged that postmortem of the deceased was not conducted in Nainital by the accused Arora to hide the evidences of her supposed murder. This, despite the fact that the doctor concerned had advised to have postmortem done there.
later, the postmortem of the deceased was held in Roorkee under pressure from the parents of the deceased. The postmortem report revealed that the cause of death was strangulation.
The sister of the deceased had registered a complaint, accusing advocate Arora, his sister and his parents of murdering Padmini for dowry. A case (FIR-14/16) was registered against the accused under sections 304b/498/201 of IPC in the police station, Roorkee. As the incident had occurred in Nainital, the Roorkee police had transferred the case to Mallital police station, Nainital.
To evade arrest, accused’s sister and parents had filed a petition in the High Court earlier. The High Court had denied giving them any relief regarding the same. Acting on a tip- off, a team led by Mallital police station in-charge Sanjay Pandey arrested the advocate from Metropolitan Compound.