2 held for taxi drivers murder

In a major breakthrough,the Mohali district police on Friday claimed to have cracked the blind murder case of a taxi driver Amarjit Singh

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In a major breakthrough,the Mohali district police on Friday claimed to have cracked the blind murder case of a taxi driver Amarjit Singh,who was found dead on the Chandigarh-Mullanpur-Siswan-Baddi inter-state road near Siswan village on Wednesday. A Toyota Innova vehicle,which the criminals had stolen after killing the 22-year-old victim,was also recovered.

Gobind Pal Singh of Batala and his accomplice Vinod Kumar alias Duni Chand of Machhli Kalan village in Mohali were arrested after they confessed to their crime,Mohali SSP Gurpreet Singh Bhullar told mediapersons. Both financially weak,their motive was robbery,he added.

The police zeroed in on them by tracing the calls they had made to Amarjits cellphone while booking the car for Delhi.

Following this,the police laid hands on Gobind at his maternal grandparents house. The stolen vehicle,carrying a fake number plate,was also recovered,said Bhullar.

On the basis of Gobinds statement,Vinod was picked up,who too confessed. Vinod ran a chemist shop at Desumajra village near Kharar and had set it on fire to take the insurance claim, said Bhullar.

The accused had called Amarjit near Siswan to pick them up before going to Delhi. When he came,they offered him drug-laced kheer to make him unconscious.

Later,they strangled Amarjit and threw him under a culvert,where the carcasses of some animals were lying. We thought that stray animals would eat the body. But someone spotted the body and informed the police, said one of the accused.

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