Close on the heels of recovering blood soaked clothes of one of the prime accused in sensational killing of Dy SP, Zia-ul-Haq sleuths of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) made a major breakthrough when they claimed to have recovered the `cap’ of the bullet which took life of the police officer on the fateful day.
Sources in the CBI confirmed that on tips provided by Phool Chanda Yadav and his brother Pawan Yadav, they searched their residence and recovered `cap’ of a bullet which was fired from a .315 bore rifle and claimed Zia-ul- Haq’s life. The CBI team claimed that now as they already had that weapon allegedly use to kill Haq by Nanhe
Yadav’s son Yogendra aka Babloo Yadav, they will send it to ballistic experts to match the two. The officers claimed that it will prove to be a major evidence in getting the accused convicted. The team disclosed that course of investigation, Phool Chandra and Pawan disclosed that on the fateful day, when they turned Haq to snatch his mobile phone, they found the cap of the bullet lying under his body so they removed it to conceal the crime. The CBI team already recovered their clothes having blood stains which were send for forensic test before dispatching it for DNA matching with the slain police officer.
Earlier with help of village guard, Manjeet, who was third prime accused for killing Haq, CBI team recovered his blood soaked pants on last Thursday. The success was made when CBI grillled Manjeet Singh along with two other killers Phool Chand Yadav and brother Pawan
Yadav, who all were in police custody remand of the CBI for five days which expired today on Monday. Manjeet during interrogation confirmed that he worn that pant on the fateful day and that the blood in it was of Zia-ul-Haq. CBI team later also recovered the SIM cards of Haq which also went missing after his death.
Sources said that since CBI already recorded conversation of another accused Guddu Singh, which he made from mobile phone from District Jail in Pratapgarh with some other gang members so they will likely to take him again on remand to grill him for the same. The team members are also preparing a questionnaire for Raghuraj Pratap Singh which they will put before the former cabinet minister before reportedly filing a closure report in the case filed by Parveen Azad, widow of slain Dy SP.
It may be mentioned that CBI unearthed the Zia-ul-Haq's killing on April 13 last when they arrested slain pradhan's brother, Phool Chand Yadav, Pawan Yadav, his son Yogendra aka Babloo Yadav and guard Manjeet Singh. They claimed that Haq was killed with the fire made by Babloo Yadav. The team also said to have recovered weapons, mobile phones and some other belongings which all corroborated the involvement of the arrested persons.
The team had recently also made some important recoveries which included a blood-stained ammunition belt from a box concealed in a house of Suresh Yadav, one of the deceased, a bloodstained wooden rod from another area in the village and service revolver of Haq. Earlier in connection with Nanhe Yadav’s killing, the CBI already arrested Ajay Pal and his brother Vijay Pal, while efforts were already on to nab one of their kin identified as Sanjay Pal along with a shooter, for which series of raids were already conducted in Jaunpur, Allahabad and in Pratapgarh. Ajay and Vijay’s father Kamta Pal, is also a accused in Nanhe Yadav’s killing.