OUTER DISTRICTDated: 05.08.2014

PRESS RELEASE

MURDER MYSTERY SOLVED

With the arrest of Panna Lal @ Paniya S/o Ganga Ram R/o Gali No. 01, Pipal Wala Mandir, Chajju Ram School Road, Adarsh Nagar, Ballabgarh Faridabad (HR); Ram Gopal @ Rahul @ Theka S/o Hari Singh R/o 1066, Santosh Colony, Ballabgarh, (HR); and Shanti W/o Laxman R/o G-323, JJ Colony Sawda Delhi, PS Kanjhawala, the Outer Distt. Police has solved the murder mystery of the death of one Laxman S/o Man Singh R/o G-323 J.J. Colony Sawada Delhi age about 42 yrs.

Brief Facts :-

On 14.05.14 at about 2.05 AM. an information was received at P.S. Kanjhawala that a dead body is lying on the road in J.J. Colony Sawada near CNG P.Pump. On the inspection of the scene of Crime a male dead body was found with multiple injuries on neck, chest and forehead. A case vide FIR No. 364/14 u/s 302 IPC was registered and investigation was taken up by Inspr. Neeraj Kumar SHO/Kanjhawala.

Investigation :-

During the course of investigation efforts were made to identify the dead body and later during the day the dead body was identified by wife of the deceased Laxman S/O Man Singh R/o G- 323 J.J. Colony Sawada Delhi. During the course of further investigation the wife of the deceased first told the police that her husband went to Uttam Nagar in the morning of 13.05.14. But later on she changed her version and disclosed that her husband went to Balabgarh, Fridabad HR to meet one Panna Lal @ Paniya to collect Rs. 20,000/- from him. When Police reached on the residence of Panna Lal, his house was found locked and none was found residing there.

A team was constituted under the supervision of ACP/Bawana Sh.R.S Khatri comprising Insp. Neeraj Kumar SHO/Kanjhawala, SI Arun Kumar No. D-4084, HC Kishan Lal No. 3051/OD, Ct. Satyawan No. 2114/OD, Ct. Ved Prakash No. 2678/OD, Ct. Chand Ram No. 1180/OD, Ct. Ravinder No. 2766/OD. Police raided his house number of times but house was found locked in the same condition. Later on through local intelligence it was known that accused is residing along with his family at H. No. 1539, 45 feet road Colony NIT Faridabad HR. Police went to this address and it was found that Panna Lal along with family has vacated this house on the same day. Later it was found that Panna Lal has shifted his family to Dehradun Uttrakhand. When Police raided Panna lal’s House i.e. H. NO. 01, Pankaj Vihar Shimla by-Pass, near Poly technique Pitthu Wala, Distt. Dehradoon, Uttrakhand. It was found that Panna Lal had run away with his family to some unknown destination after leaving the household goods and one M/Cy No. HR-29AG-4675, make Avenger in the same house. Accused was continuously changing his locations and contacts. The police again traced his hide out in Haridwar and when police reached at Hotel Modi Inn, at main railway road near railway station Shiv Murti chowk Haridwar, it was found that Panna Lal had taken two rooms in the hotel and he was staying there for the last two days. He had initially booked these rooms for three days but he suddenly checked out the hotel after two days along with his family. The police team continuously chased Panna Lal @ Paniya based entirely on human intelligence and finally on 29.07.14 in the night Panna Lal was nabbed from house of Brijesh S/o Hari Singh R/o Behind Football Ground, Raj Vihar, Arya Nagar, Jamalpur, Haridwar, Uttarakhand, where he was staying with his family.

On interrogation he admitted his guilt that he along with his cousin brothers i.e Istala, Limca and one Ram Gopal @ Rahul @ Theka killed Laxman in the night 13/14.05.14.Pannalal planned this murder by hatching a conspiracy with his brother Istala and wife of the deceased R/o G-323, JJ Colony, Sawada. Pannalal asked the wife of the deceased to send Laxman to Ballabgarh to collect Rs. 20,000 from him. Pannalal also hired a vehicle HR-29AB-1538 white colour Santro car with a driver Ram Gopal @ Rahul @ Theka. Ram Gopal @ Rahul @ Theka , a friend of his son Dharma @ Dharmender. Later on 01.08.14 Ram Gopal @ Rahul @ Theka was also arrested and on 3.08.2014 Shanti W/o Laxman was also arrested.

Motive:-

Pannalal was having illicit relation with the wife of deceased for the last 4-5 years. When Laxman came to know about this, he had a major fight with his wife. He started suspecting her on trivial matters and also started beating his wife and daughter many times. As a result of it his wife lost her patience and she told all these things to Pannalal and ask him to eliminate Pannalal so that she can live peace fully. Pannalal was attached very much to the wife of deceased and his daughter and he planned the murder of Laxman and finally on 13.5.14 he committed it with the help of his associates.

Strategy:-

Pannalal killed Laxman with the help of his cousin brother Mohan @ Stalla and Raju @ Limka in Ballabhgarh (HR) and dumped his dead body with the help of Ram Gopal @ Rahul @ Theka through his Santro car on the main road Sawda JJ Colony and tried to make it appear that it looks that some unknown vehicle has hit Laxman and he died as a result of road accident.

Accused remaining to be arrested

1.Mohan @ Iestela

2.Raju @ Limca

(Vikramjit Singh) IPS

Dy. Commissioner of Police

Outer District, Delhi