Five held for murdering man in Ranhola
NEWDELHI: The police on Saturday arrested five men in connection with the murder of a 27-year-old B.tech degree holder in outer Delhi’s Ranhola 45 days ago.
Police said the five men, excluding the prime suspect Abdul Kaish aka Alam who is still on the run, murdered Abdul Mamud, a resident of Sector 20, Noida, following an altercation over a financial dispute.
They were consuming alcohol when Mamud had an argument with Alam and his five friends. They allegedly murdered him and threw his body into a drain.
A senior police officer said Mamud had given a loan of R5 lakh to his friend Alam on interest a few months ago.
But Alam was neither paying the interest nor he was returning the principal amount. It has became a bone of contention between the two friends and they were at loggerheads for the past couple of months, the officer said.
On August 15, Mamud left home and went to Kunwar Singh Nagar in Delhi’s Nangloi to collect the money from Alam but never returned. His family members searched him in all possible places. When they failed to locate Alam, they filed a missing complaint in Noida.
Pankaj Singh, deputy commissioner of police (outer), said that on August 16, the Ranhola police was informed about an unidentified male body discovered in a drain by some locals. Since the police found strangulation marks around the victim’s neck, a murder case was registered.
“It was a blind murder case as we did not know the identity of the deceased and the motive was not known. All official procedures, including uploading photographs and details of the deceased on Zipnet were completed,” said the DCP.
A week later, the deceased was identified and it was learnt that he was missing since August 15 from Noida. The police met his brother and obtained his mobile number. His last location was Kunwar Singh Nagar. During enquiry, a few witnesses said Mamud was seen with six men.
“The identities of the suspects were established and they were arrested,” said the officer adding only Alam’s interrogation will reveal if calling Mamud to collect the money and engage him in drinking alcohol was part of their murder plan. NEWDELHI: The process to reconstitute the Delhi Waqf Board, which was dissolved last year, had begun and the seven-member panel might be formed in the next one month, a government official said on Sunday.
The issue was raised at a meeting of the Delhi Assembly’s Minority Welfare Committee, headed by AAP MLA and former Waqf Board chairman Amanatullah Khan. “The committee was told that the new board could come up in the next one month,” said the official.
The process would be launched by publishing a list of the Mutawalli (managers of Waqf property) voters. These 48 voters would elect one of the four members of the board, he added.
The Waqf Board comprises four elected and three nominated members. The Delhi government nominates a social activist, an Islamic scholar and one of its officials as members to it.
The elected members are those chosen by the Mutawallis and the Bar Council, besides an MP and an MLA. The board, which looks after the Waqf properties in Delhi, had been a bone of contention between the ruling AAP and the office of the Lieutenant Governor (LG). The then L-G Najeeb Jung had, in October last year, dissolved the board constituted by the Arvind Kejriwal-led government and referred the matter related to “irregularities” in it to the CBI.