Y’nagar jeweller murdered over monetary dispute

Shiv Kumar Sharma

Tribune News Service

Yamunanagar, June 28

A local jeweller with the help of two persons allegedly killed another jeweller over a monetary dispute on Wednesday night.

Superintendent of Police Rajesh Kalia said that two of the three suspects had been rounded up.

He said that jeweller Yogesh was to return money to another jeweller Sanjeev Kumar Khanna (50). But Yogesh did not want to return the money. So Yogesh took Sanjeev from his house on Wednesday night on the pretext that he had some money with him and that they would go to Panchkula to buy raw material (used for making jewellery) for him.

The SP said that there were two other persons — Rohit, working in a local gaushala, and Shunti — in Yogesh’s car.

“Preliminary interrogation has revealed that on the way, the trio strangulated Sanjeev with a clutch wire and hit his head and face with a hammer. After killing him, they threw the body in a field on the way,” said SP Rajesh Kalia.

He said that two suspects Yogesh and Rohit had been rounded up.

The body of Sanjeev Kumar was found in the fields at Rajpura village under Shahzadpur police station of Ambala district on Thursday morning.

Anand Khanna of Sector 17, HUDA, Jagadhri, in his complaint to the police on Wednesday night, said that his father Sanjeev Kumar had left home with Yogesh on Wednesday night.

However, his father did not return for long. He called up his father several times, but the mobile phones were switched off.

He then called up Yogesh, who told him that he had left his father near a petrol pump at Jagadhri at about 10.30 pm.

On Anand’s complaint, a case was registered against unknown persons under Section 364 (kidnapping) of the IPC at City police station, Yamunanagar, on Wednesday night.

Sanjeev Kumar had shifted to Yamunanagar from Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh, a few years ago. He, along with his family, was staying in Sector 17, HUDA of Jagadhri, and was running a jewellery shop in New Market of Yamunanagar.

Anand told mediapersons that his father was to take 13-kg gold from Yogesh. He said that when his father did not return home on Wednesday night, Yogesh told them that he had returned 10.5-kg gold to his father and dropped him near his house.

After the post-mortem examination at Civil Hospital, Naraingarh, Ambala district, the body was handed over to family members. They have taken the body for cremation to his ancestral house in Saharanpur.