Monday, 01 January 2024 | PNS | DEHRADUN
The Uttarakhand Special Task Force (STF) arrested a man accused of robbing and killing a doctor by slitting his throat in September last year in Haridwar. The senior superintendent of police of STF Ayush Agrawal said that some men robbed and killed a man named Dr Ashok Chaddha in Haridwar’s Kankhal area on September 11 last year. His daughter registered a complaint against some unknown accused in the case. The police registered a case under sections 321, 23 and 302 of the Indian Penal Code and started the investigation. It was revealed in the initial investigation that there were six men who killed the victim to rob him.
The police on September 15 arrested four accused who were allegedly involved in the murder of Chaddha. These accused were identified as Bhanu Pratap, Sandeep Kumar, Abhijeet and Manish Giri, two of whom belonged to Uttar Pradesh but were living as tenants in Haridwar while the rest were locals of Haridwar. The arrested accused told the police about other two accused known as Shibbu Langda and Deepak Koti who were locals too, said Agrawal. He said that Shibbu was allegedly the main accused of the crime and the Haridwar SSP had also announced a bounty of Rs 25,000 on his arrest.
He said that STF soon started looking for the absconding accused by manually gathering evidence about his hideouts. The SSP said that the STF team finally arrested him from Delhi late on Saturday after weeks of investigation and planning. He said that the arrested accused was handed over to Haridwar police to take further action in the case after interrogating him. Agrawal said that the authorities are looking for the absconding accused Koti and will catch him soon too.
