Kidnapped youth found murdered

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, April 13 

Two days after a 28-year-old car mechanic was kidnapped from near the grain market in Sector 39, the Chandigarh Police recovered his half-burnt body from Siswan near Mullanpur and arrested one of the accused for kidnapping and murdering the victim. The victim was strangled and then set on fire.

The victim, identified as Mohammad Ali, had gone missing on April 11 and the victim’s wife, Neeta Dogra, who is a dancer, approached the police and complained that her husband had been kidnapped.  

A case of kidnapping was registered by the police at the Maloya police station.

During the investigation, one of the suspects, Khem Singh, alias Shanty (31), a resident of Ludhiana, was questioned about his involvement in the case following which Shanty disclosed that he, along with his brother Sukha, accomplice Jagdev and another person, kidnapped the victim in an Innova and took him towards Siswan. The victim was strangled in an MUV using a stole. The accused then bought petrol at a petrol pump near Mullanpur. 

The accused took the body to a forest area in Siswan and removed the victim’s clothes. The accused poured petrol on the victim’s face and set it on fire. The accused escaped to Ludhiana.

The body was recovered by the police from Siswan during the wee hours of Friday. 

Sources said the victim’s slippers were found near the body while his blue shirt was recovered from Khuda Lahora. The accused had thrown the victim’s mobile phone near Balongi in Mohali, which was yet to be recovered. Shanty was arrested and produced before the duty magistrate and sent to five-day police remand. 

The sources said the police conducted a raid in Ludhiana and rounded up three youths. 

Motive behind the crime 

The police said Neeta was in love with Mohammad Ali and got married to him in 2013. However, later she came in contact with Shanty, who runs an orchestra group, and fell in love with him. The duo stayed together for around three years. However, Neeta recently left Shanty and came back to stay with her husband in Jujhar Nagar, Mohali. Shanty, who was a jilted lover, hatched a conspiracy to eliminate the victim. 

Another accused rounded up

Sources said another accused, Gaggi, was rounded up by the police on Friday night. His name was revealed by the prime accused.