One held from UP, three still at large

Our Correspondent

Hoshiarpur, November 24

The district police have nabbed an accused from Bulandshahr district in Uttar Pradesh in connection with the double murder of two lawyers on the night of Diwali. The search for the main accused, the husband of the deceased woman lawyer, and his two accomplices is on in full swing.

Disclosing this at a press conference, SSP Navjot Singh Mahal said the police arrested one of the alleged accused Rahul Kumar, alias Kapil Kumar, from Manglaur village in Bulandshahr district of UP. The SSP told the reporters that a special team was formed to investigate the matter under SP (Investigation) Ravinder Pal Singh Sandhu, including DSP Jagdish Raj Attri, Model Town SHO Karnail Singh and the CIA in-charge Shiv Kumar, to carry out an investigation into the matter.

The investigation revealed that on Diwali night, deceased lawyer’s husband Ashish Kushwaha, a resident of Noida, along with Sunil Kumar, Kapil Kumar and an unidentified accused had carried out the incident. An FIR under Sections 302, 201, 120-B of the IPC has been registered by the Model Town police in this regard, on the complaint of Bhagwant Kishore’s son Sumnender Gupta. After this, teams led by DSP Prem Singh conducted raids at various places in Uttar Pradesh and Delhi, during which accused Rahul Kumar alias Kapil Kumar was arrested.

According to the SSP, the accused confessed that Ashish and Sia entered into an argument and Advocate Gupta was trying to strike a compromise between the two, but Ashish did not like Gupta’s intervention. So, he plotted to kill both of them with the help of his three accomplices. During interrogation, it was revealed that Ashish, along with one of his accomplices, reached his wife Sia Khullar’s house in Hoshiarpur on November 13 in an SUV from Noida and on November 14, two more accused, Rahul Kumar, alias Kapil Kumar, and his friend Sunil Kumar also reached Hoshiarpur in a car.

The SSP said as per the plan, Advocate Bhagwant Kishore Gupta was called to the house of Sia Khullar. There Ashish Kushwaha and his accomplices poisoned both of them. Their bodies were put in Sia’s car which was later set on fire near the Purihiran — Chandigarh bypass to destroy the evidence. Later, Ashish left for Noida along with an unidentified accused while the other two suspects, Sunil and Kapil, went to Manglaur.