Cab driver honeytrapped, was called to deserted place to kill him: Police

Akram Iqbal Qureshi was recovered murdered adjacent the Tansa-Vaitarna h2o pipeline successful Bhiwandi connected January 18. He was attacked with a blunt object, said police.

According to police, Qureshi had near successful his cab from his Jogeshwari location the erstwhile day. When helium did not instrumentality location and his telephone excessively was recovered switched off, his household filed a missing person’s ailment astatine Oshiwara constabulary station.

Investigation truthful acold revealed that Qureshi primitively hails from Uttar Pradesh and the accused men are his distant relatives, who nursed an aged grudge against him and his family.

“The accused decided to destruct Qureshi… the (arrested) woman, who is simply a woman of 1 of the accused, was roped successful to bring Qureshi to a deserted place,” said Deputy Superintendent of Police Rahul Zalte.

According to police, the pistillate befriended Qureshi connected Instagram. She was conversing with him for a agelong clip and insisted him to conscionable successful Bhiwandi. “When Qureshi came to spot her for the archetypal time, the accused killed him and dumped his assemblage astatine a deserted place,” said Zalte.

“We person managed to nab the woman…Police teams person been dispatched to UP to look for the different accused,” said the elder constabulary officer.

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