Varanasi: Triple murder mystery solved with arrest of six men

VARANASI: With the arre3st of six persons on Thursday, Varranasi police claimed to have solved the mystery of a triple murder case that came to light a year ago.
A group of men murdered an insurance agent Sumit Srivastava of Manduadih in October last year in order to grab Rs 4.73 lakh from his bank account. Later, to evade police, the five arrested on Thursday along with two other accomplices murdered their own companions Raju and Brijesh Vishwakarma.The mastermind of the triple murder, Abhishek Jaiswal, who is the son of killed mafia Munna Bajrangi’s most trusted aide Kripa Chawdhary, had left misled the police due to which three innocents were sent behind bars.
SSP Amit Pathak, while producing the arrested accused before reporters on Thursday, said, “Six accused including Abhishek, Ramvilas Patel, Shashikant alias Jawani, Vikas Patel, Pankaj Patel and Nilkanth alias Shivam Jaiswal have been arrested so far, while two others—Saurabh alias Lalu and Sonu Modanwal—are yet to be nabbed. Cash worth Rs 2.48 lakh, mobile phones of Sumit and Brijesh, two motorcycles and a cas used in disposing the body of Sumit had also been recovered.”
According to Pathak, a year back, Sumit had got a loan sanctioned from a bank after which Rs 4.73 lakh were transferred to his account. Sumit shared this information with his colleague Nilkanth, who passed it on to Abhishek. Nilkanth and Abhishek planned to grab hiis money along with Saurabh. Later, they included Vikas, Pankaj, Shashikant and Ramvilas in their plan.
As per their plan, Sumit was taken to the pumping set of Vikas, which was located in lonely place in Korauta village of Lohta area. There, they strangulated Sumit on October 23. After taking his mobile phone, ATM and Aadhaar card, they carried his body Ramvilas’s car and dumped it in the jungle of Rajgarh in Mirzapur district.
However, they all failed to withdraw money from Sumit’s account, said Pathak. Abhishek then added two more men—Raju and Brijesh—in the plan. With the help of Saurabh, money from Sumit’s account was transferred to the accounts of Raju and Brijesh. This online money transfer alerted cops and they started looking for Raju and Brijesh.
Fearing Brijesh would reveal their names to the police if arrested, Abhishek called Brijesh and stangulated him with his accomplices. They then dumped his body in the Ganga near Mauni Baba ki Kutyiya area on November 7. Two days after recovery of Brijesh’s body, his family lodged a named FIR against six persons.
Following these developments, Abhishek and his accomplices called Raju and asked him to hand over the money transferred to his account. When Raju refused and threatened to report the matter to the police, they killed him and dumped his body in the Ganga in Chunar area of Mirzapur district.
Pathak said that Abhishek and his accomplices involved in the triple murder, maintained silence for several months. On Wednesday, however, they gathered to divide the money collected from Sumit’s account. At the same time, the joint team of Manduadih and Rohania police nabbed six of them.
Investigations revealed that Abhishek is the son of Kripa Chawdhary, who was eliminated in a police encounter several years back, while his brother-in-law Rajesh Chawdhary had also been killed in a gang war. Kripa was known as the mastermind of Bajrangi gang who also recruited new shooters.