The police have arrested four people in connection with the attempt to murder of a youth in Garhwa. The accused were allegedly promised Rs. 80,000by the friend of the victim, with whom he was allegedly having an affair, to commit the murder.
Victim Amantulla when traveling from Garhwa to Meral riding in a tempo, one youth who was also in tempo attacked the victim by knife on Tuesday.
SDPO Awadh Kumar Yadav said that the arrested accused have been identified as Chintu Mishra alias Siyaram Mishra, Asim Ansari (Father Gulzar), Shakeel Ansari (Father Alauddin Ansari) both are residents of Chhatarpur village and Mukesh Kumar (Father Vijay Sah) are residents of Tandwa in Garhwa.Main conspirator of the incident, Khairullah Ansari, is still absconded. He will be arrested soon.
Amanatullah and Khairullah were good friends. Both of them used to visit each other's hoyse. During this time, Khairullah became friends with Amanatullah's wife Khushboon.
Khairullah and Khushboon's friendship turned into love. The love affair began to escalate, so Khairullah hatched a plan to kill her husband and his friend Amanatullah Ansari to get Khushboon out of the way. Khairullah contacted Asim Ansari and Mukesh Kumar to carry out the incident. The matter was decided for 80 thousand rupees.When the deal was settled, the criminals bought a folded knife from the Garhwa Market committee and gave it to Chintu to kill Amanatullah. The criminals had full knowledge of Amanatullah Ansari's return from Ambikapur to Meral.
Criminal Chintu Mishra was also made to sit on the tempo on which Amanatullah sat to come to Meral from Garhwa. The plan was that after carrying out the incident, Chintu would be taken away on a motorcycle with him. That's why Chintu's companions were coming on a motorcycle behind the tempo. But, according to their plan, they could not carry out the incident. After an unsuccessful attempt to murder, Chintu was caught while on the run.
After questioning Chintu, it was found that 6 people were involved in the incident. Police have recovered two knives, two motorcycles and 4 mobile phones used in the incident, thana in-charge Nitish Kumar added.