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Former Army jawan remanded to three days’ police custody

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: The ex-Army jawan, who was arrested for allegedly shooting a young man dead in a bid to rob him of a bag containing Rs. 8.65 lakh in Mayur Vihar here on Wednesday, was remanded to three days’ police custody by a city court on Thursday. The police are now on the lookout for his accomplices.

The court remanded Anil Kumar to police custody after they submitted that they wanted to interrogate him to know the whereabouts of his accomplices. The police suspect that the other culprits fled on the motorcycle that was used to trail the victim, Santosh Kumar.

Investigations have revealed that Anil and his brother, who lives in Bulandshahr, had gone to the Noida Sector 41 branch of Mahamedha Urban Cooperative Bank to withdraw money on Wednesday afternoon. They noticed that Santosh, an employee with a chartered accountancy firm at Laxmi Nagar, was withdrawing a huge amount of cash and then allegedly planned to rob him.

Around 3-30 p.m. when Santosh was on his way back to his office in an auto-rickshaw, the culprits trailed him on their motorcycle and tried to snatch the bag containing the cash near the Mayur Vihar police post.

Santosh offered resistance and raised an alarm, at which Anil allegedly shot him. He was fleeing with the bag when two passers-by Mohammad Meraj and his friend Mohammad Wahid, who were going on a motorcycle, overpowered him.

Though Anil has not revealed much about the identity of his accomplices, it is learnt that police teams have been despatched to various places in Uttar Pradesh to search for his brother and another suspect.

“We are working on some leads and hope to arrest the others involved and recover the motorcycle used in the commission of crime,” said a police officer.

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