In a shocking incident reported from Saharanpur, a man was brutally thrashed by his friends leading to his death for refusing to pay money for liquor last Tuesday.
Later, the assailants dumped the body in a canal in the Chilkana area to conceal the crime.
The sensational facts came to fore only on Thursday night when cops picked up the suspects and grilled them.
As per reports, Ranveer (38) of Hauz Khaidi area of Kutubsher police station area went out with his friends Sonu and Brijesh last Tuesday evening. When he did not return home till late in the night, his wife, Ruby, enquired from her husband’s friends, who claimed that they parted ways in the evening and he was unaware of his whereabouts.
Ruby subsequently informed the police and handed over an application apprehending foul play.
Initially reluctant to act, the cops finally reacted after Ruby contacted the senior superintendent of police and asked for help to allay her suspicion on Ranveer’s two friends.
During a search, the police recovered Ranveer’s body from the canal in the Chilkana area. After Ruby identified him as her missing husband, the cops picked up Sonu and Brijesh and grilled them on Thursday evening. They broke down and confessed to have murdered Ranveer for refusing to lend them money for a liquor party on the fateful day.
After killing Ranveer, they threw his body in the canal to conceal the crime.
A case of murder was registered against the assailants and they were sent to jail.
Meanwhile in Moradabad, Government Railway Police (GRP) Sub-Inspector Chandra Pal Singh was caught red-handed by the Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) while accepting a bribe of Rs 20,000 from a railways employee.
The accused cop was investigating a case of molestation against Travelling Ticket Examiner (TTE) Komal Krishna. A woman passenger had alleged that Krishna had sexually harassed her during her travel from Anand Vihar in Delhi to Sultanpur on November 14.
In the course of the probe, the sub-inspector demanded Rs 50,000 from Krishna to give him a clean chit and of this, Rs 20,000 was to be paid in advance. Krishna then approached the ACB, which in turn caught the sub-inspector while receiving the money at Moradabad railway station on Thursday.