Three in net for Gzb cloth trader’s murder

With the arrest of three persons, the city police claimed to have solved the murder of a cloth trader here.

The Indirapuram police on Saturday arrested Pankaj and Prince of Delhi and Naseeb Chaudhary of Sahibabad’s Pasonda village for allegedly hatching conspiracy for the murder of Arshi Malik, SHO Gorakh Nath Yadav said.

Yadav claimed that Pankaj confessed to renting a flat in ATS society, using a fake ID, from where the three accused watched Arshi’s movement using binoculars and gave all the information to the key accused, Yunus alias Kala.

After they gave the final inputs about Arshi’s movements, Kala murdered him at ATS society on March 11 and fled with his accomplices, he said.

Malik was an eyewitness in the murder of his younger brother, Pappu Malik alias Amzad, who was shot dead on January 13, 2015. Amzad’s assailants were later identified as Kala, Rasheed, Nadeem and Naseem, he said.

Arshi, who was the lone eyewitness in the case, had complained against Kala, Mausam Pradhan and Nawab accusing them of trying to exhort money in July 2014, he said.

Kala had been mounting pressure on Arshi to reach a compromise, which he refused. Since then Kala nurtured a grudge against him, he said.

Yadav said the trio was sent to jail under IPC Sections 302 and 120B.