Editor Mr.Mayank Rawat ( Chief Editor Mr. Rohit Mishra )
New Delhi: A 14-year hunt for an absconding convict, who, along with his associates, murdered five members of a family during a robbery and raped one of them in northeast Delhi’s Bhajanpura, finally came to an end when he was arrested in Meerut.
Police recieved a PCR call on July 6, 1996 about the murder and found five bodies of a man, two women and two children. Six people, including Raj Kumar, were arrested. During the trial, the court convicted four of them and sentenced them to 20 years’ imprisonment.
DCP (crime) Aditya Gautam said that in 2011, Kumar was granted 40 days’ parole due to his mother’s illness. But he did not return to jail and was absconding since then. “A team was formed after receiving information about him. One of the cops posed as a delivery boy to track him down and finally nabbed him from Multan Nagar, Meerut,” he said.
The robbery was planned after Kumar’s friend, Rajender alias Raju, said his cousin in Bhajanpura recently sold a property for Rs 22 lakh. When no money was found in the house, they raped one of the women and murdered the entire family. TNN
Mayank Rawat
