Man wanted for multiple murders arrested

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Press Trust of India New Delhi
Last Updated : Jan 07 2016 | 7:22 PM IST
A 24-year-old man, wanted in connection with four murders and carrying a reward of Rs 5 lakh on his arrest, has been nabbed by Delhi Police's Special Cell from southeast Delhi's Kalindi Kunj area, police said today.
The accused, identified as Virender alias Juthar, a native of Kharoli village in Haryana's Mahendargarh is a qualified engineer and took to the world of crime around two years ago to avenge the death of a close friend, DCP (Special Cell) P S Kushwah said.
Virender's wife Sunita is in jail in connection with a murder which was executed by her husband, said police.
"Based on a tip-off, we laid a trap yesterday at an intersection in Kalindi Kunj area where Virender was to come. When he saw the police team, he whipped out his gun, but he was overpowered before he could fire," Kushwah said.
During interrogation, Virender told the police that he killed one Mahesh in February 2014 to avenge the murder of his friend Shakti Pehalwan in his village. One Sandeep Fauji along with Mahesh had allegedly killed Pehelwan, said police.
"Subsequently, it was decided to reach a compromise in the matter with the intervention of village elders and as a result Fauji, who was arrested and kept in judicial custody, was bailed out. However, Virender shot dead Fauji soon after that," police said.
Virender allegedly tried to threat Bimla Devi, the mother of Fauji, who was an eyewitness in the murder of her son, not to depose against him but she didn't yield to the threats, following which she was shot dead, police said.
When Devi was killed, her father (Fauji's maternal grandfather) became eye-witness to his daughter's murder. He, woo, was allegedly killed by Virender.
When the Haryana Police couldn't track him down for months, they announced a reward of Rs 5 lakh on his arrest, police added.
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First Published: Jan 07 2016 | 7:22 PM IST

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