GHAZIABAD: Four persons were arrested on Sunday for allegedly strangling their 24-year-old friend and setting his body on fire to erase all evidence at the Loni border.
The victim, Prince Tanwar, a resident of Loni border, went missing from his house on June 12, after which his parents filed a missing person’s report. That same evening, police recovered the half-burnt body of an unidentified youth in Abupur village in Niwari area of Ghaziabad.
On June 13, the family identified the body, and the police started an investigation. The autopsy report revealed that Prince got strangled by hand and his body burnt.
DCP (Rural) Ravi Kumar said the police, after identification, converted the missing person’s complaint into an FIR under IPC Section 302 (punishment for murder).
“During investigation, we learned that on June 12, the deceased had received a phone call from the suspects and left the house. The suspects are Sumit Singh alias Bhola (22), Ashish Tanwar (31), Ankit Tanwar (26), all living in Tronica City, and Shiva Malik (19), a Baghpat resident,” the DCP said.
“The four had picked up the deceased from his house on the pretext of a party in two Swift cars, white and red. They intoxicated him and strangled him when he fell unconscious. Later, they took the body to Niwari, where they burned it after pouring petrol,” the DCP said.
“When police interrogated the four suspects, they said that Sumit and Prince had a fight two years ago. Sumit decided to take revenge and befriended Prince a few months ago. Then Sumit hatched a plan to kill Prince and involved the other three suspects. Their plan was to kill Prince and burn the body so no one could identify it. That's why they purchased one litre of petrol before meeting Prince and used it after killing him,” the DCP said.
Police sent the four accused to judicial custody after producing them in the court.
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