PROPERTY DISPUTE LIKELY BEHIND MURDER, SUGGESTS INVESTIGATION
LUCKNOW: Police investigation hinted at involvement of an insider in the double murder. It also suggested property dispute behind the crime. The probe revealed that the women were killed within 50-minutes between 10.30 and 11.30am. “Sandal often goes to teach Yoga on week days but stays at home on Sunday. She was last spotted while returning home almost at the same time,” said a police official. He said police had found a local youth Abhishek, who spotted Sandal at some distance from her house, at around 10.40am. He said she must have been killed as soon as she entered her house. “So far probe suggested that Juggun might have been murdered first when she was alone in the house and Sandal was murdered later when she returned,” said a cop associated with the probe. He said there is no forced entry that suggested the assailants were familiar to the two women. He said there were also no struggle marks that hinted that the accused easily entered the house and smothered them . The cop said the house was ransacked but the valuables and some cash were found intact. He said it indicated that the assailants tried to mislead cops He said the questioning of over six persons including some family members of the victims revealed that there was a dispute over the ownership of the two plots on which the victims’ house was built. He said one of the two plots was in the name of Sandal while the second plot was in the name of her elder brother Kunj Bihari, who died 10 months ago. The cop said Sandal wanted that the brother’s plot should be transferred in the name of her younger sister Juggun. He said the victim’s other brother Anjani and his son Dhruv were opposing this and wanted the plot to be transferred to them. He said the Dhruv’s statements were also found contradictory and he frequently had telephonic conversation with his maternal uncle during the period when the murder was committed. Dhruv’s uncle has been called for questioning. He said the police had also sought help of the victims’ other brother CB Lal, who lives in Ghaziabad, and sister, Munni, who lives in Faizabad.