Millennium Post

Cops trace suspect using wife's phone location

- ABHAY SINGH

NEW DELHI: Mohit, a suspect in the murder of two women, came under the police's lens when they found the deceased Premlata's phone missing from the spot. Police claimed that from the location of his wife's mobile phone they were able to trace the suspect. Police sources told Millen

nium Post that his wife was killed instead of being at the spot he was missing with her phone risen the suspicion. Police had no photos and also they did not get much clue from the neighbours in Delhi as the suspect had come to Delhi the first time. The police sources claimed that they have found two phones broken in the house they suspected that it might be of Premlata and Sonia (deceased) but during the investigat­ion, they came to know that those phones belonged to Sonia and her brother.

Police sources further claimed that when they started sending the messages and tracing the location they learnt that the location was changing; in the first time they found the location in ISBT and the next location was in Kanpur. Sonia's father Raj Kumar was in Kanpur who later joined police team there as they had no photograph­s. Police first reached the accused's home in Panchlakh in Bhognipur area of Uttar Pradesh which was found locked. The police then asked several people including the family members of the victim about his whereabout­s; they came to know that he did not meet any of them.

The investigat­ion continued in the agricultur­al field in different areas till late night and at 5:30 am on Tuesday the body was discovered by police team. However, the exact motive behind the incident was still not clear. The suspect had two phones but his phone was found switched off and wife's phone was still on. Mohit lived with his wife Premlatha in Agra. His cousin, Soniya, lived with her father and brother in Wazirabad village. Since Soniya had a gallbladde­r surgery a few days ago, she needed someone to care for her at home. But with her father and brother left for their village in UP'S Auraiya a week ago for some work, Mohit was requested to come down to Delhi and look after her.

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