Uncle held for siblings’ killing
With the arrest of three persons, including the victims’ maternal uncle, the Delhi police claimed on Sunday it had solved the kidnapping- murder case of two minor siblings. A senior official said the accused, identified as Amit Singh, 22, hatched the conspiracy to kidnap his nephew and niece to get ` 30 lakhs in ransom from their family, which had recently concluded a property deal. The bodies of Mansij, 7, and his sister Yashbi, 5, were found near Pragati Maidan Saturday morning, four days after they were kidnapped from their school in east Delhi’s Mandawli area.
It is learnt that Amit and his two friends Shivam Gupta, 19, and Pankaj Kashyap, 19, had tried to kidnap the children earlier on February 23, but this failed as they did not go to school that day.
With the arrest of three persons, including the maternal uncle of the victims, the Delhi police on Sunday claimed to have solved the kidnapping and murder case of two minor siblings. A senior police official said that the accused, identified as Amit Singh, 22, hatched the conspiracy of kidnapping his nephew and niece to get ` 30 lakhs from their family, which they recently got in a property deal. The bodies of Mansij, 7, and his sister Yashbi ,5, were found near Pragati Maidan on Saturday morning, four days after they were kidnapped from their school in east Delhi’s Mandawli area.
The accused, Amit, alongwith his two friends Shivam Gupta, 19, and Pankaj Kashyap, 19, had also tried to kidnap the children on a previous occasion on February 23 but could not do so as they did not go to school that day. They even allegedly planned it to be that perfect that they locked the door of the victims’ house so that their mother could not go out to pick them up from school. They allegedly strangled the children and smashed their heads with rocks on the same day they kidnapped them after they found that it was difficult to keep the siblings with them. “The trio wanted to make fast money and knew that the family had got around ` 30 lakh in a property deal,” Mr Prabhakar, deputy commissioner of police ( east), said. Another accomplice, Abhilash, is on the run. Singh had scouted a deal for the sale of a flat in Mandawali and needed ` 6 lakh immediately for clinching it. Kashyap, on the other hand, had lost heavily in gambling and had run debts amounting to ` 1.50 lakh and needed money to repay the debts. Amit’s accomplices needed money to satisfy their consumerists instincts,” Mr Prabhakar said.
After Singh “confessed” to the crime, he and his two accomplices were arrested, he said.