MEERUT: UP police with the help of a sniffer dog cracked a case involving the death of a 62-year-old woman, Satviri Devi, and arrested her 22-year-old nephew, Sagar Singh, at Akbarpur Raina village in Bulandshahr district.
During questioning, Sagar told the cops that he had smashed his aunt’s head with a hammer and left her to die after she refused to give him money and car keys to take his girlfriend on a trip to Ladakh.
The matter came to light when Satviri’s husband, Gajveer Singh, 65, who was out to attend a wedding in Modinagar, returned home early on Friday and found her body lying in a pool of blood with severe injury marks on her head.
A senior police officer on Sunday said the body has been sent for post-mortem and a case of murder registered on the basis of a complaint against the accused. Sagar had earlier worked as a merchant marine for some time and returned home about a year ago.
Divulging the details of the case, Bulandshahr SSP, Shlok Kumar, said, “A police team with a sniffer dog was sent to the crime scene. The sniffer dog stealthily went via the house roof and reached the room where Sagar was present along with his friends and started barking at him. Suspecting his involvement in the crime, the police took him into custody for questioning.”
The SSP added: “Sagar at first tried to mislead the cops by levelling allegations of murder on a local person. But the cops noticed a few blood stains on his shirt. When they questioned him again, he confessed. He was arrested on Friday evening and later sent to jail.”
During questioning, Sagar told the cops that he had smashed his aunt’s head with a hammer and left her to die after she refused to give him money and car keys to take his girlfriend on a trip to Ladakh.
The matter came to light when Satviri’s husband, Gajveer Singh, 65, who was out to attend a wedding in Modinagar, returned home early on Friday and found her body lying in a pool of blood with severe injury marks on her head.
A senior police officer on Sunday said the body has been sent for post-mortem and a case of murder registered on the basis of a complaint against the accused. Sagar had earlier worked as a merchant marine for some time and returned home about a year ago.
Divulging the details of the case, Bulandshahr SSP, Shlok Kumar, said, “A police team with a sniffer dog was sent to the crime scene. The sniffer dog stealthily went via the house roof and reached the room where Sagar was present along with his friends and started barking at him. Suspecting his involvement in the crime, the police took him into custody for questioning.”
The SSP added: “Sagar at first tried to mislead the cops by levelling allegations of murder on a local person. But the cops noticed a few blood stains on his shirt. When they questioned him again, he confessed. He was arrested on Friday evening and later sent to jail.”
