Abohar miscreant booked for murdering companion track driver, looting Rs 9 Lakhs
Dilbag Singh
Abohar miscreant booked for murdering companion track driver, looting Rs 9 Lakhs
NAKODAR 13 FEBRUARY
The Nakodar City police have booked a Abohar miscreant on the charges of murdering his companion truck driver and looting his money
Station House Officer (SHO) Harmindar Singh said that the accused has been identified as Ajad Singh son of Karaj Singh a resident of Balluanna colony Abohar .
SHO said the accused murdered his companion truck driver Parveen Kumar son of Om Parkash a resident of Sitto Guno village near Abohar .
Chander Pal,son of Chaman Lal a resident of Basant Nagar ,Abohar and a fruit supplier , complained to the police said that on February 9, the truck driver, Praveen Kumar, took a truck loaded with fruit to Ludhiana. Next day, he unloaded the consignment in Ludhiana and received Rs 9 lakh for it before leaving for Abohar.
However, his phone was later found switched off.
Chander said he contacted people in Ludhiana and found that Praveen’s companion, Azad Singh, was accompanying him.
CCTV footage from a toll plaza near Nakodar showed that Azad was driving the truck while Praveen was not with him.
Following this, the family started looking for Praveen and learnt that a man’s partially burnt body had been found in a pit near Nakodar, which was found to be that of Praveen. The body bore deep injury marks, one of its legs was missing and its lower part was completely burnt.
Chander alleged that Azad killed Praveen and set the body on fire before fleeing with the money and the truck.
The Nakodar police reached on the spot and recovered the body of the deceased which was badly burnt of the deceased and handed over the body to the family after the post-mortem.
Praveen was an only son and a bachelor.
SHO said a case under section 103 (murder) 238(causing disappearance of evidence) and 306 (theft by clerk or servant of property) of the BNS has been registered against the accused and riads are being conducted to nab him.
