Wednesday, 13 SEPTEMBER 2023 | PNS | DEHRADUN
Dehradun police arrested Abdullah Bashar (18) and his sister Kudrat (20) on Tuesday morning on charges of killing a man after he purportedly refused to marry her, said the Dehradun senior superintendent of police Daleep Singh Kunwar. He said that the police got information from a hotel in Bhattagaon near Mussoorie on Sunday that somebody had killed a man by slitting his throat. A police team reached the murder site and started the investigation. The hotel staff told the police that the man had taken a room using his ID and was accompanied by a young man and a woman. The deceased was identified as Kapil Chaudhary who belonged to Roorkee’s Adarsh Nagar area. He said that the police informed the victim’s family who registered an FIR in Mussoorie police station against an unknown accused and the investigation was handed over to senior sub inspector Guman Singh. The SSP said that the police checked the footage of CCTV cameras near the hotel that showed one man and woman entering the hotel with the victim on Saturday but they left the hotel the next day in the victim’s car without him. The police activated the informers’ system to intensify the search for both the accused. The police arrested both the accused after they got a tip-off on Tuesday that the victim’s car was spotted in Haridwar. The SSP said that both the accused have claimed to be siblings. According to the accused Kudrat, she met Chaudhary in Delhi about two years ago and they reportedly exchanged numbers. “She has claimed that they both started talking to each other over the phone and Kapil used to meet her when he visited Delhi. She claimed that they both liked each other and Kapil had promised to marry her as well. She has also tattooed his name on her hand. However, he later told her that he would only marry as per the wish of his parents. Kudrat said that she told her brother about this and he got infuriated after which the duo planned to kill him,” said Kunwar. The SSP has also announced a reward of Rs 25,000 for the police team which nabbed the accused.
