Varanasi: Man murders father’s killer after 28 years, arrested

VARANASI: Cantt police on Thursday nabbed Farid Khan alias Jugnu who was absconding after killing his uncle Shahid Iqbal on November 21 to avenge the killing of his father in 1992.
SSP Amit Pathak said, “Acting on a tip-off the Canttt cops raided a locality near Income Tax office on Maqbool Alam Road early morning and nabbed Jugnu. Later, on his information the cops recovered a country-made revolver and live cartridge from Gothaha area.”
During interrogation, Jungu confessed to have killed Iqbal in revenge.He also divulged that Iqbal had killed his father in 1992 and since then he had decided to teach a lesson to Iqbal. Five years ago he had bought a country-made revolver and cartridges, he said adding, but could get an opportunity to kill Iqbal when his relative Mushtaq invited him and Iqbal at his residence on November 21.
After killing Iqbal, he had reached Goithaha,where he hid the revolver and reached Nepal, said police. But when he could not arrange money for staying in Nepal for long, he came back to Varanasi to collect money and was caught.