Nowshera police begin brutal blind murder probe of 22 yeas old Resident of Bihar

GNSONLINE RAJOURI
SHYAM SOOD

RAJOURI, NOVEMBER 18:–Nowshera police in the Rajouri district of J&K have launched a probe to unearth the killer(s) involved in the murder of a 22-year-old resident of Bihar state, who was found tortured to death from Ward No.2 in Nowshera town in the early morning hours on Friday.
The killer(s) has damaged the face of the deceased so that he can’t be identified.
The deceased has been identified as Vishal Kumar son of Balistar Mahatoo resident of Siwan district in Bihar state and a labourer by profession who, according to his father, returned from Bihar to Nowshera only on Wednesday.
“Vishal returned to Nowshera on Wednesday & was living separately in a room. At about 7.30 pm on Thursday, he met me and left after saying that he will join us at the dinner. But he didn’t return. We tried to contact him on his mobile but couldn’t, as his phone might have been snatched by the murderers,” said his father.
He appealed to the senior police officers for early justice in the murder of his son.
At about 6.30 am on Friday the resident of Shiv Mandir Mohalla (ward No.2, Nowshera town) spotted the body, face badly damaged with repeated strokes of sledgehammer recovered from the spot, lying alongside the road in a drain.
They contacted the police and a police party from Nowshera police station headed by inspector Rajesh Jasrotia, SHO rushed to the spot.
After legal formalities and the samples collected by the forensic team of police, the body was moved to the morgue at the sub-district hospital for autopsy & other medico-legal formalities.
The police besides a sledgehammer also seized some clothes & other items from the nearby field.
The police termed the killing as blind murder and said that a case under section 302 IPC (FIR had been registered against unidentified killers at the Nowshera police station.
The police have started further investigation into this brutal blind murder and also have rounded up 3-4 suspects (close to the deceased) for questioning.
“The police have recovered the weapon (sledgehammer) used in this blind gruesome murder and also collected samples from the murder site. The Investigation has been set in motion, and few suspects have been rounded up for questioning,” said SSP, Mohammad Aslam.