Times News Network
Varanasi: The police, on Thursday, arrested two persons for their involvement in the property dealer murder case. The police have launched a manhunt to nab three other absconding accused.
According to reports, the 50-year-old property dealer Narayan Dutt Tiwari alias Guddu Tirawi, a resident of Akhari village was sprayed with bullets near a brick kiln in Rohaniya area on April 5 night. He was returning from Shooltankeshwar temple when the assailants stopped him and started indiscriminate fire on him. They fled from the scene after committing the crime. The local residents rushed to the spot after hearing the gun shot and saw Tiwari lying on the ground with multiple bullet injuries. They immediately informed the police and his family members. The police rushed Tiwari to the Trauma Centre of Banaras Hindu University, where he succumbed to injuries in course of treatment.
The Rohaniya SHO Pravin Kumar said that an FIR was lodged against five persons including Neeraj Pandey, Dheeraj Pandey, Dayanad Pandey, all residents of Kurahua, and two unidentified persons under sections 147 (rioting), 148 (rioting, armed with deadly weapon), 149 (every member of unlawful assembly guilty of offence committed in prosecution of common object), 302 (murder), 504 (intentionally insults, and thereby gives provocation to any person) and 34 (a criminal act done by several persons) of IPC. The police have launched a manhunt to nab the absconding accused.
Acting on a tip-off, the police arrested Dheeraj and Dayanand at Audhey turning on Thursday, said the SHO. The other teams of police are conducting raids to nab the absconding accused.