More than a month after they went missing, Delhi Police on Tuesday recovered the highly decomposed bodies of property dealer Munavvar Hassan’s wife and two daughters from Daurala Village in Meerut, who were allegedly killed at the behest of his business partner Sahib Khan alias Bunty.
Hassan, who is a Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader, was also killed by Khan late on Saturday night, after he came out of Tihar Jail on parole in search of his missing
family.
Khan got Hassan, his wife and four children killed in order to take over the latter’s property worth over Rs 2 crore. Khan was arrested along with three men who had carried out the killings.
The bodies of Hassan’s two sons were buried in Khan’s office in North Delhi’s Burari area. They were dug out on Monday after a confession by the accused.
“A police team reached Meerut on Monday to recover the bodies of Hassan’s wife and two daughters. The bodies were exhumed from near a dried-up river in Daurala Village. A DNA and forensic examination will be carried out to confirm their identity,” said Deputy Commissioner of Police, North district, Jatin Narwal.
Apart from Khan, police have arrested his friend Dipak and the two alleged contract killers, Firoze and Zulfikar.
The gory incident came to light when the body of 45- year-old Hassan with gunshot injuries was found at his residence in Burari on May 20 after Khan informed the police about his death.
Hassan had been lodged in Tihar Jail for a rape case since January 19 this year and was released on interim bail on May 17 as his wife Sonia and four children, Aqib, Shaqib, Arzoo and Arshi, had been “missing” since April 18.
“Khan, in fact, assisted his incarcerated business partner in applying for parole. In 2015, Hassan had been arrested in a rape case and in January 2017 he was convicted and sentenced by a Delhi court,” the DCP added.
Finding Khan’s actions suspicious and discovering contradictions in his statements, police quizzed Khan further, following which he revealed that he had got the entire family killed.
Khan had been instrumental in getting Hassan out on interim bail. Ever since the property dealer got bail, Hassan had been visiting him every morning, police said.
He was known to Hassan and his family for the last several years. He was the deceased’s confidant and business partner.
Khan told police that on April 20, he took Hassan’s wife and daughters to their relative’s house in Saharanpur. While returning to Delhi, he killed them with the help of contract killers.
On April 22, when Hassan’s sons reached Khan’s office in Burari to inquire about their mother and sisters, they were also killed and their bodies were buried there.
Two more contract killers are involved in the case and a manhunt has been launched to nab them.
Police are questioning the arrested accused, who are in their custody, to find out the whereabouts of the
contract killers and dig deeper into the entire murder plan.