UP law student died in an ‘accident’. Then cops found six human bite marks

A murder case was registered, and a team of five women officers — Superintendents of Police Areeba Nomaan and Simran Singh, Additional Superintendent of Police Preeti Singh, and Circle Officers Priya Singh and Asma Waqar was constituted to crack it.

The first breakthrough came when the probe team was able to identify the victim. The youth was identified as a 21-year-old law student from Jhansi’s Vijay Nagar, Parvez Ali. His father, Ahsan Ali, told the police that his son had booked a Rapido and left home around 9 pm on September 13, saying he would return within an hour or two.

Police inquiry revealed that Parvez was facing a criminal case in Jammu and Kashmir. Also, a packet of white powder, possibly a drug, was found in Parvez’s pocket. While the forensic report of the powder sample was yet to arrive, police suspect that Parvez was a drug dealer.

As the police team scanned footage from over 150 CCTVs and went through call records of several persons, it began to piece together the case, leading to the arrest of eight persons, including a local police constable, and the unravelling of a drug peddling-extortion racket.

The unravelling of murder-extortion plot

One by one, the police arrested eight persons – Prayansh (30), Jai Srivastava alias Aman (24), Sahil Mishra (21), Bhupendra Vanshkar (23), Yash Shivhare alias Bittu (23), Arshil Khan (20), Shani Namdev (24), and police constable Ashish Singh (30) — all residents of Jhansi.

The eight arrested accused — including constable Ashish Singh, posted at Prem Nagar police station — were allegedly members of a group that called itself ‘Rashtra Bhakt’, claiming to work against crime by apprehending offenders and handing them over to police.
Investigations, however, revealed that the group instead extorted money from those involved in crime by threatening to expose them.

According to the police, the accused, who knew that Parvez was involved in drug trafficking, hatched a plan to call him under the pretext of taking a drug sample and then, with the constable’s assistance, illegally detain him and threaten to send him to jail to extort money from him.

As part of the plan, Sahil made contact with Parvez. On the day of the incident, Sahil called Parvez under the pretext of collecting a drug sample. After Parvez reached the spot decided upon by Sahil on his friend’s bike, he got into a car in which Sahil was sitting. Before he got into the car, an online transaction of Rs 5,000 was done for viewing and obtaining the drug sample. Two other cars of the accused followed the car in which Sahil was sitting.

“Parvez was likely under the influence of drugs at the time. After some time, he grew suspicious and began resisting inside the car. Fearing his shouting would expose their plan, the accused assaulted him inside the vehicle to overpower him. As Parvez began losing consciousness during the assault, they mistook it for the effects of drug intoxication. In an attempt to revive him, two of the accused, Bhupendra and Shani Namdev, allegedly bit him on the thigh. When he still did not regain consciousness, the accused, believing he had died, abandoned his body on a roadside and fled,” a police officer involved in the probe told The Sunday Express.

Police said that they have recovered seven mobile phones and three cars allegedly used in the crime. Dental samples of Bhupendra and Shani have also been collected and sent for matching with the bite marks found on Parvez’s body.

“We are looking for three more persons involved in the crime,” said SSP (Jhansi) Vikash Kumar.