Agra: A 25-year-old was kidnapped by his pals for a ransom of Rs. 2 crores on June twenty first. He was later murdered the identical night time after which cremated at Balkeshwar Ghat after they handed him off as a Covid affected person.
Sachin Chauhan was the one son of chilly storage proprietor Suresh Chauhan, his relations had filed a lacking individual grievance however he couldn’t be traced.
On Sunday night time, the Particular Process Drive obtained a tip-off after which they detained 5 individuals, together with Sachin’s shut good friend Harsh Chauhan, who’s the son of his father’s enterprise companion. They confessed to the homicide which led to the arrest of Sachin Aswani, 32, Blissful Khanna, 35, Manoj Bansal, 30, Rinku, 25, and Harsh Chauhan, 24.
In keeping with police, Sachin and Harsh used to regularly go to a sports membership owned by Aswani in Agra’s Dayalbagh space.
Sachin turned pals with Aswani and commenced to borrow cash from him. When the borrowed quantity reached Rs 40 lakh, Aswani requested Sachin to return the cash, however he was not prepared to pay it again.
Aswani and Harsh then made a plan to kidnap Sachin and demand a ransom of Rs 2 crore from his father.
On June 21, Aswani referred to as Sachin to hitch them for a booze social gathering at Khaspur village. He was allegedly smothered to dying by the accused.
SSP Muniraj G. stated, “In a bid to mislead the police, the accused purchased PPE kits from a medical store in Kamla Nagar and after protecting themselves, they cremated his physique at Balkeshwar beneath a faux identify. The following day, Aswani’s cousin Blissful Khanna and his good friend Rinku collected his ashes and immersed them within the Yamuna.”
STF inspector Uday Pratap Singh stated that the accused made the error of giving certainly one of their relative’s contact numbers on the ghat. After cremation, Blissful’s good friend Manoj Bansal took Sachin’s cell phone to Kanpur to mislead the police. Police stated that Manoj was to make the ransom name for Rs 2 crore however he couldn’t collect the braveness to take action.
“When he bought a name from Sachin’s mom on his quantity, he instructed her that Sachin was sleeping they usually had been in Noida,” stated the police.
The household bought suspicious and filed a lacking grievance on June 22, police stated.
(With data from IANS)