Two accused held in murder cases

LUCKNOW: City police claimed to have cracked two murder cases that were reported last week. On March 18 two bodies were found at Ismailganj and in a Maal village. It was 40-year-old Santosh Kumar Singh alias Kallu found murdered at Ismailganj, while in the Maal village property dealer Ramu had been shot dead.
Ramu's kin had pointed fingers at two persons who used to work closely with Ramu and cops arrested one of them, Ramkhilawan.A .315 bore firearm used to commit the crime was recovered from the accused. The second accused Suresh is yet to be nabbed.
In the Kallu murder case cops arrested 20-year-old Pinky Tiwari and 30-year-old Rinku Mishra. Kallu had married twice and his first wife pointed fingers at Pinky. A resident of Gosainganj area, Kallu had a few years back sold land to a developer and got over Rs 50 lakh from the deal, said police.
He invested about Rs 1.60 lakh along with Mishra and was running a hotel in Jankipuram area. Kallu's first wife Rajkumari had pointed fingers towards Pinky. Cops from Ghazipur police station who worked on the case maintained that the duo killed Kallu by strangulating him to death with a single strike. In charge of Ghazipur police station N S Sirohi said Kallu and Mishra were at loggerhead over division of profits.
The case, revealed a source, was worked out by cops hurriedly who were under pressure to deliver results. A team from Ghazipur police station had found out that Pinky spoke to a person over the phone repeatedly before Kallu was murdered. A team was asked to nab the person but came back empty handed.
Sirohi confirmed a team was following the person. "But, we are not sure about his involvement in the act," he added. Police decided to overlook the crucial link, which it was chasing aggressively till late Saturday and claimed to have worked out the case on Monday.