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Wednesday, Sep 15, 2004

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Farmhouse murder accused tried to dispose of body

By Our Staff Reporter

Narender Subba, prime accused in the Milan Limbu Subba murder case, being produced at the Delhi police headquarters in New Delhi on Tuesday. Photo: R.V. Moorthy

NEW DELHI, SEPT. 14. Interrogation of Narendra -- brother-in-law of Mani Kumar Subba, Member of Parliament from Tezpur in Assam, and prime accused in the murder of Subba's personal assistant Milan -- has revealed to the police that he and others present on the farmhouse on September 9 had initially tried to dispose of the body but panicked and messed up the scene of crime.

Narendra -- who was arrested by a joint team of Delhi and Siliguri police team on Sunday and brought to Delhi on Tuesday -- had then decided to flee from the spot.

The Deputy Commissioner of Police (South-West), Deependra Pathak, said here on Tuesday afternoon that after killing Milan in the guest room of the Chhattarpur Extension farmhouse in the early hours of September 9, Narendra brought the body down from the first floor and bundled it into one of the cars. However, neither he nor his sister Jyoti was confident about of disposing of the body and decided to put it back on the first floor. The accused then panicked as bloodstains were all over the place. It was at this juncture that two farmhouse workers, Ramsharan and Kishore, and one of the security guards, Ravi Lal, were asked to clean the bloodstains. Jyoti at that time reportedly tried to destroy evidence and shield Narendra by delaying information to the police. All of them have been arrested.

Following the incident, the other security guard, Arjun, escaped from the scene in panic. Later, when he saw his photographs in the media as one of the absconding suspects, he came to the police to clear his name. The police then questioned him at length which helped them in establishing the sequence of events.

The police said there seemed to be only one eyewitness to the crime. Raj Kumar Mohanta, belonging to a non-government organisation of Assam, was in the guest room when the verbal exchanges between Narendra and Milan began. "After playing host to about a dozen guests from the MP's constituency, Narendra, Milan and Mohanta got down to playing cards even as they consumed liquor in the guest room. During the game, Narendra and Milan began taking jibes at each other, which soon gave way to verbal altercation. This continued for quite some time and finally it came to fisticuffs. Narendra then rushed down, snatched Ravi's gun, went upstairs and shot at Milan from a point blank range," said Mr. Pathak.

Meanwhile, after messing up the crime scene, Jyoti decided that Narendra should escape. He then walked out of the house and then called up his acquaintance Tenzing, based at Majnu Ka Tila in North Delhi, on his mobile phone and asked him to come to his house in his vehicle. "Narendra told Tenzing that he had a fight with someone and that he needed to get out. He never mentioned the murder," said the DCP. Tenzing then hired a Toyota Qualis for Narendra to go to Assam.

The police contacted Tenzing who revealed the details of the vehicle and the driver. He even hinted at the possible route that Narendra was likely to take for crossing over to Nepal.

A police team, which had earlier been sent to Siliguri, was trifurcated and deployed on three different highways. The team deployed on Gangtok-Siliguri Road, led by Sub-Inspector Vidhyadhar, managed to track down the vehicle and apprehend the accused.

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