CURATED BY – GAURAV SINGHAL | CITYCHIEFNEWS

Saharanpur, Dehat Kotwali police has disclosed the murder of an e-rickshaw driver about one and a half months ago and arrested two accused including a murderer. According to the information received, the friend had killed the e-rickshaw driver by giving him too much smack and also tried to burn his body. Police have recovered e-rickshaw, Aadhar card and other documents from the arrested accused. SP City Abhimanyu Manglik told in the police line that a murder case was registered in Dehat Kotwali on 12 August. The deceased's brother Minwak had told in a written complaint that on 10 August his brother Islam had left the house with an e-rickshaw. On 12 August his body was found lying in Chunmun's garden. The body was burnt. The body was mutilated due to rain. The police registered a case and started investigating the case by scanning the nearby CCTVs. In the CCTV, a young man named Junaid was seen sitting in the e-rickshaw of the deceased Islam, who works as a conductor on a truck. During checking, the police arrested Junaid from Datouli Ranghar and on his information, Faizan, who bought the stolen battery, was also arrested. A stolen e-rickshaw, four batteries, an Aadhar card, a PAN card and a voter ID along with a car were recovered from them. During police interrogation, the accused Junaid told that he knew the deceased Islam from before. Both of them had consumed smack together many times. On August 10, both of them reached Chunmun's garden in the forest of Halalpur in an e-rickshaw. Both of them consumed smack. He made Islam consume more smack. He himself drank less. When Islam became heavily intoxicated, he killed Islam by pressing his nose and mouth and also tried to burn him but the body could not be burnt due to rain. Accused Junaid contacted Faizan to sell the e-rickshaw. Faizan brought the e-rickshaw, battery and other items in his car for which he received Rs 14,000.