A day after Delhi Police with the help of Mumbai Police arrested the main accused and his two accomplices in the murder of a 21-year-old aspiring air hostess in East Delhi’s Mansarovar Park area, Delhi Police has taken the accused, Adil alias Munne Khan (25) on eight days police custody.
“We have taken eight days police remand for the accused, Adil, as we are yet to recover the weapon of offence and other incriminating evidence such as his clothes which he was wearing at the time of killing Riya Gautam. We will take him to Mumbai and other places where he hide the evidence,” said a police officer. Meanwhile, the other accomplice, Junaid Ansari has been sent to judicial custody and the juvenile has been sent to correctional home.
On the evening of July 5, 21-year-old Riya Gautam was brutally stabbed by her male friend near her residence in full public view in Ram Nagar Extension area of Mansarovar Park in East Delhi. The chilling incident was captured in a CCTV footage where Adil was first seen slapping the girl and trying to stab her. The victim was stabbed eight times. Police in their investigation had found that the girl was in an on and off relationship with Adil for the past three years. The accused, who had four cases of auto lifting registered against him became furious when he found the victim with another boy. Regarding this incident, the girl had filed a police complaint against Adil in March.