Dehradun police have arrested two persons in connection with the sensational case in which the body of a young woman was found near the railway track in Shah Nagar area of the city.
Police paraded two masked men before the media on Wednesday and claimed that the duo was involved in
gruesome murder of woman Taslima. The culprits Ratan and Ajay are residents of Deepnagar area of the city and are natives of districts Aligarh and Kannauj in Uttar Pradesh.
Confessing their crime they said that the woman was into the profession of prostitution. The duo called up Taslima on the night of June 30 and had sex with her. When Taslima demanded money they told her that they are short of money.
This infuriated the woman and she threatened to lodge a case of molestation against them. An altercation broke out between them and in a fit of rage the duo strangulated her.
The Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Sadanand Date said that the duo visited the spot one hour after they committed the crime and took away her mobile before throwing her near the railway track.
The culprits who work as delivery boys in a local Gas agency even ensured that they leave no sign of their presence on the spot. The body of the woman was found near railway track on June 1 and a Raju Kanaujia claimed that the body is of his wife Sunita who is absconding.
However the relatives of the Sunita clarified that the body is not of her. A day later Sunita appeared to puncture the claim of her husband. The post mortem report of the body revealed that it was transported near the track from the scene of crime. The police then launched a drive to identify the body, pamphlets were circulated and advertisements were given in local newspapers.
On June 5 the body was identified by her brothers as Mehuwala resident Taslima wife of Masoom. It was revealed the woman had married twice but walked out of both the marriages. She entered prostitution and had very little links with her maternal family.
To find the murders of Taslima the SSP formed a team led by the SP city Ajay Singh and In charge Dalanwala police station. On investigation, police zeroed upon the taxi driver who ferried the woman to Deepnagar locality. The police then arrested the culprits on the basis of mobile surveillance. On interrogation the duo accepted their involvement in the heinous crime.
The police team consisted of Nehru Colony in charge Vinod Singh Gusain, SI S S Rana, SI N S Bisht and constables Sunil Rana, Prateek Kumar, Pushkar Rana, Hardayal Panwar, Asish and Pramod.