Brother duo held for elderly woman’s murder

LUCKNOW: Two brothers, who had executed a large number of robberies across the city and were also involved in the recent murder of a septuagenarian woman in Indira Nagar, were arrested from Munshipulia crossing on Monday.

The arrested duo were identified as Vineet Mishra, 21, and his younger brother aged around 15 years – natives of Lakhimpur Kheri. They were working as electricians at an electrical goods shop. They were staying at Omkarpuram in the state capital.

The cops recovered Rs 12,000, large number of gold and silver ornaments from the two brothers. On June 13, the two brothers had allegedly killed Krishna Varshney, 74, at her residence in Indira Nagar.

For robbery, the two brothers often targeted houses that they had earlier visited for some electrical repair work, said senior

› They worked as electricians. When they visited houses for installation of invertors or some electrical repair work, they used to carry out a recce of the house and later executed the robbery. DEEPAK KUMAR, SSP, Lucknow

superintendent of police Deepak Kumar. “They were working as electricians with Krishna Electrician. The duo often visited houses for installation of invertors or some electrical repair work. During their visits, the two brothers used to carry out a recce of the house and later executed robbery there at an appropriate time,” said Kumar.

“Some time back, Vineet and his brother had visited Krishna Varshney’s house at Sector 11, Indira Nagar for installing an inverter. On June 13, the two brothers went to her house again on the pretext of checking the inverter and carried out the robbery. Thereafter, they killed the lady,” added the SSP.

The surveillance team of SP, Trans Gomti, led by sub inspector Ajay Prakash Tripathi, also played a major role in the breakthrough.