Gurugram, May 1 (IANS) A 25-year-old man was arrested for allegedly conspiring and killing another person here, the police said on Monday.
The accused has been identified as Ajay alias Ajju while the victim was Gyanender, a resident of Asavata village in Haryana's Palwal.
During the interrogation, the accused disclosed that Gyanender had an enmity with his friend Bharat and he (Gyanender) had fired several rounds of fire outside the latter's house.
"The accused developed enmity after the incident and hatched a plan along with his accomplice and killed the victim on April 13 with hammers and iron rods and fled the spot," Preet Pal Sangwan, ACP (crime), said.
On April 13, the victim had come from Palwal to a farmhouse in Lakhuwas village in Sohna with his friends, where around a dozen people surrounded him and beat him with hammers and iron rods.
The villagers took Gyanender to the hospital, where the doctors declared him brought dead.
Based on a complaint given by the deceased cousin's brother a case of murder was registered at Sohna City police station.
"The accused is on police remand and will be questioned to know about the remaining accused. A country made-pistol has also been recovered from the accused," he said.
Reacting to a submission made to the UT Administrator by the Haryana Assembly Speaker, the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader in a letter to the Administrator said Chandigarh was an inalienable part of Punjab and the Haryana government could not apply for a land swap without taking the consent of the parent state.
Director General of Police Punjab Gaurav Yadav identified the arrested accused as Ramjan Khan, alias Raj Hooda. He said police teams have also arrested his two accomplices -- Happy Mehla (19) and Sahil Mehla (18), both resident of Hanumangarh in Rajasthan.
In Cachar, three people were arrested with 1.80 lakh tablets used for intoxication on Sunday in the Lakhipur area in the district. Police informed that the international market value of seized tablets is around Rs 50 crore. The accused were identified as Abdul Saeed, Ibazur Rahman and Sameer Alam, all residents of the Cachar district.
Further, police teams have been sent to Tosh in Himachal Pradesh after it was revealed that he, along with his live-in partner, had stayed there for quite a long time. Aftab had strangled his live-in partner Shraddha Walkar on May 18 and then chopped her body into many pieces.
Disclosing this here today, a spokesperson for the Chief Minister's Office said the government has approved the OPS for its employees currently covered under New Pension Scheme (NPS), fulfilling a long-pending demand of employees of the state.
The affected girl students of Kasturba Gandhi College in West Maredpally, Secunderabad were hospitalised with complaints of breathlessness and dizziness. The college authorities denied that there was any gas leak from college lab. They said foul smell from garbage dump on the college boundary wall led to students falling ill.
