A cash reward of Rs 2.5 lakh each was announced on the killers of Hindu outfit leader Kamlesh Tiwari by UP Police on Monday.
Meanwhile, the agencies investigating the case brought the conspirators arrested in Surat from Gujarat to Lucknow on transit remand and they were interrogated by officials, including the Special Investigation Team (SIT) head, IG Lucknow range SK Bhagat and the SSP of Lucknow at the Anti-Terrorists Squad (ATS) headquarters.
Later in afternoon, a close-door meeting was held in the office of Lucknow SSP and it was attended by all SIT members. The SIT is yet to conclude its probe.
During investigations, the cops investigating the murder case recovered blood-stained saffron clothes and a blood-stained knife from a room of a hotel in Kaiserbagh police station area on the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday.
On the basis of documents provided to the hotel for booking the room, the suspects were identified as Ashfaq Hussain and Moinuddin Ahmad of Jeelani Apartments in Surat and through of their mobile phones, their location was traced in Ambala on Sunday night.
With the assailants evading arrest, DGP OP Singh announced a cash reward of Rs 2.5 lakh each on them.
Sources claimed that reliable inputs were received by the Nagpur unit of ATS regarding the involvement of a suspect named Sayed Asim Ali of Nagpur in the Kamlesh Tiwari murder case and subsequently he was nabbed.
They said that Asim Ali was in touch with the other accused.
It also surfaced that he played an important role in the murder plan.
Lucknow’s SSP Kalanidhi Naithani confirmed that another suspect was apprehended in Nagpur and a Lucknow police team had been sent there to take him into custody.
“The suspect will be brought to Lucknow on transit remand,” he said.
On the other hand, conspirators in the Kamlesh Tiwari murder case, Maulana Mohsin Sheikh, Faizan Yunus and Rashid Ahmed of Surat were brought to Lucknow and were taken to ATS headquarters by a Lucknow police team led by ASP (West).
“The probe agencies also interrogated a taxi driver who had brought the killers to the hotel where they stayed and from where they executed their plan,” a police officer said.
Kamlesh Tiwari (45), earlier associated with a faction of Hindu Mahasabha, was killed in his office-cum-residence in Khurshedbagh under Naka Hindola police station in Lucknow on Friday. Two persons donning saffron clothes had visited Tiwari with a box of sweets and later killed him.