Days after a 19-year-old truck driver was murdered in Better Noida, cops on Sunday mentioned they’d arrested the killer, including that the deceased man and the suspect have been concerned in a scuffle at a truck cease in Jharkhand greater than a month in the past.
“The deceased man was recognized as Imran Ansari, 19, a resident of Mohanpur village in Bihar. He was a truck driver,” mentioned Ashok Kumar, extra deputy commissioner of police, Better Noida.
“On the intervening evening of Thursday and Friday, we obtained data on Dial-112 {that a} physique was found contained in the cabin of a parked truck on the Noida Expressway in Better Noida,” mentioned ADCP Kumar. “The person’s neck was slit by a pointy edge weapon and his cell phone and pockets have been lacking. After figuring out him, we knowledgeable his relations and registered a murder case at Rabupura police station on Friday,” mentioned ADCP Kumar.
He added, “We tracked the suspect, Amit Kumar, 40, who’s from Sonipat, Haryana, with the assistance of CCTV cameras and native intelligence. We arrested him from the Chandigarh trisection on Saturday at 6 pm. Amit revealed that not less than one-and-a-half months in the past, whereas he was cooking at a truck cease in Jharkhand, Ansari spit pan masala near his meals.”
“When Amit objected, a struggle ensued, and Ansari and three or 4 of his buddies assaulted him. Amit then resolved to actual vengeance and famous down the registration quantity of Ansari’s truck,” mentioned ADCP Kumar, including, “On Thursday, when Ansari was passing by way of Mathura, Amit recognized him and adopted his truck till the Noida Expressway.”
“Amit devised a plan along with his buddy Phool Singh, a Moradabad resident, and stopped him underneath the guise of a flat tyre. After killing Ansari’s neck, they parked his truck in a distant space close to the Jewar toll plaza and fled to Sonipat,” mentioned Sudhir Kumar, station home officer of the Rabupura police station.
“After being taken into custody, the suspect in some way managed to seize the pistol of a sub-inspector to flee,” SHO Kumar added. ADCP Kumar mentioned, “In his defence, SHO Kumar shot him in the leg and arrested him. On Sunday, his confederate, Phool Singh, was arrested in Jhajhar, Bulandshahr.”
In response to ADCP Kumar, Amit had murdered a person named Pravesh in Bahadurgarh in 2013. “He’s been out on bail for the previous three years,” he added.
Amit was arrested on fees of murder, try to murder and resistance or obstruction by an individual to his lawful apprehension, underneath the Indian Penal Code, at Rabupura police station.