T'gana honour killing accused held in Samastipur

  • | Tuesday | 18th September, 2018

“After the crime, Subhash had the same day fled to Bengaluru from where he took a train to Samastipur on September 15. He was hacked to death at Miryalaguda town in Nalgonda on September 14.Subhash was taken to Nalgonda on Tuesday on transit remand, the Samastipur SP said.A native of Samastipur, 25-year-old Subhash worked in a meat business unit in Miryalaguda. PATNA: An alleged contract killer suspected to be involved the recent ‘honour killing’ in Telegana’s Nalgonda district was arrested from Bihar’s Samastipur district on Monday evening.Samastipur SP Deepak Ranjan told this reporter over the phone Subhash Sharma was arrested from Jagatpur under the Mufassil police station area by a Telangana police team. He is said to have been hired by Amrutha Varshini’s father T Maruthi Rao, who was unhappy with her intercaste marriage, to kill her husband Perumalla Pranay. His father Ram Sudhar Sharma works as a farm worker in Samastipur.According to police, Pranay was attacked by Subhash when he along with wife was coming out of a hospital.

PATNA: An alleged contract killer suspected to be involved the recent ‘honour killing’ in Telegana’s Nalgonda district was arrested from Bihar’s Samastipur district on Monday evening.Samastipur SP Deepak Ranjan told this reporter over the phone Subhash Sharma was arrested from Jagatpur under the Mufassil police station area by a Telangana police team. He is said to have been hired by Amrutha Varshini’s father T Maruthi Rao, who was unhappy with her intercaste marriage, to kill her husband Perumalla Pranay. He was hacked to death at Miryalaguda town in Nalgonda on September 14.Subhash was taken to Nalgonda on Tuesday on transit remand, the Samastipur SP said.A native of Samastipur, 25-year-old Subhash worked in a meat business unit in Miryalaguda. His father Ram Sudhar Sharma works as a farm worker in Samastipur.According to police, Pranay was attacked by Subhash when he along with wife was coming out of a hospital. Pranay hailed from scheduled caste and Amrutha belongs to an upper caste.“The gory killing was captured by a CCTV camera and it was on the basis of its footage that the Nalgonda police identified the contract killer,” said a Samastipur police officer.Samatipur’s Mufassil police station SHO B N Mehta said Subhash was nabbed when he reached home. “After the crime, Subhash had the same day fled to Bengaluru from where he took a train to Samastipur on September 15. He reached Samastipur Junction on September 17 evening and went straight to his home where the cops were waiting for him,” he said.The SHO said preliminary interrogation revealed Subhash had received Rs one lakh as advance for the killing in which three more contract killers were also involved. “The CCTV footage shows Subhash was the one who executed the crime,’ the SHO said and added Subhash had earlier been arrested in 2011 for his alleged involvement in a robbery case in Pune where he used to work in a resort.

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