PATIALA: The three friends including two minors arrested by the
Nabha police in connection with the murder of one 25-year-old Sunil Kumar have turned out to be serial killers as the district police have cracked another murder case while interrogating the accused, who had already confessed to two other murders.
The police had busted the gang on Wednesday after they arrested the three accused, including two minors for killing Sunil Kumar. Sunil, a local resident of Khatra colony of Nabha had gone missing from his house on November 27, last year, and his body was recovered from a canal near
Mehas Bridge in Nabha the next day.
As victim’s hands were tied at the back with a belt and legs tied together with a shoelace, the cops suspected it to be a murder. On the basis of the technical pieces of evidence and sequence of events recreated by the investigating team, the police were able to zero-in on the three persons.
During interrogations, 19-year-old
Ranjit Kumar alias Nata, one of the three accused told the police investigators that he along with the two minors had killed Sunil by strangulating him with a shoelace. He told the police that Sunil was against the advances being made by one of the two minors towards his (Sunil’s) sister, which became the motive for killing him. After murdering Sunil, they tried to destroy evidence by throwing the body in the canal. Ranjit said that two minors were his neighbours as was Sunil and they all knew each other.
According to the police, the trio hatched a conspiracy and invited Sunil for drinks near the canal where they murdered him and threw the body into the waters. The cops had registered them under section 302 (murder) and 201 (destruction of evidence) of IPC act in this regard.
During further interrogation, Ranjit admitted that they had also murdered another 17-year-old
Roshan Lal alias Tota over an old enmity on December 28, in 2016. Roshan had had an altercation with Ranjit during which he had attacked him with a sharp-edged weapon and injured him a few months before he went missing.
Out of vengeance, the three called Roshan to strike a compromise over the issue and took him to a vacant plot near Nabha bypass road, where they strangulated him with a piece of cloth. The accused then threw his body on the railway track to make it look like an accident.
After cracking the two cases, the police interrogators also managed to extract another confession from the accused in which Ranjit admitted that they had also killed 22-year-old
Karamjit Singh alias Gaggu, who had gone missing in July 2017.
Ranjit told the police investigators that Karamjit had got suspicious that they (he along with the two minors) had killed Roshan. As Karamjit started asking questions, the three got wary that he might reveal it to the cops and decided to eliminate him. They again hatched a conspiracy under which they invited Karamjit for smoking near the canal where they strangulated him and threw his body into the canal.
SSP Boopathi said given the barbarism with which the two minors joined hands with the 19-year-old to execute three murders over the last two years the district police have decided to file an appeal before the trial court that the two minors be treated the majors while deciding the case.
Shaminder Singh, Crime Investigating Agency incharge said all the accused were school dropouts and were taking odd jobs to sustain a living. They hailed from families of migrant labourers who were now settled in Nabha.
