Brother duo strangle advocate for bullying them, dump body in Unnao

Lucknow: A city advocate was killed by two trader brothers on the eve of Holi and his body was dumped in Unnao.
After the initial probe, police claimed the brothers killed the advocate since he bullied and ridiculed them by calling them impotent.
Kaiserbagh resident advocate Nitin Tiwari (40) had gone missing on March 28 night and his brother Mayank had lodged a complaint.
A police team found a body dumped on the roadside in Moraon, Unnao, on March 28 night and launched a probe. The cops flashed the photos of the body on social media groups and were seen by officials of Kaiserbagh police station.
The advocate’s brother Mayank reached the mortuary in Unnao and identified the body as that of Nitin Tiwari.
Taking probe ahead, Unnao cops visited the residence of the Tiwari to collect more details and found the advocate had received the last call from a former neighbor Praveen Kumar Agrawal who had shifted with his brother Vipin and their families to Sainik Vihar in SGPGI police station area and runs a general store.
Unnao police raided their house in Sainik Vihar colony and rounded up Praveen and Vipin who confessed to the crime following sustained questioning.
SP, Unnao Anand Kulkarni said, “The deceased Nitin Tiwari had left from his home on March 28 night after he got a call, but didn’t return. His brother Mayank lodged a missing complaint since his mobile phone was also switched off.”
The accused Praveen Kumar Agrawal and his brother Vipin Kumar Agrawal, residents of Sainik Vihar Colony. They disclosed they had called Nitin to their residence, killed him and dumped the body in Moraon, he added.
“The accused claimed Nitin had been bullying them for the last three years and used to call them impotent. They said Nitin also talked ill about the women of their families. They claimed Nitin was very influential and shared good rapport with local cops and hence they never complained against him,” the SP said.
The brothers confessed that Nitin reached their house on March 28 night and again started abusing them. They banged his head against the wall and then strangled him using a gamchha, the officer said.
We arrested both while their tenant Deenbandhu Dwivedi, who helped them in dumping the body by driving their car, is absconding. We recovered the car as well as Nitin’s motorcycle.”