Wanted for over 11 years in Delhi murder case, contract killer arrested from Chhattisgarh-Jharkhand border

Banarsi, who had been absconding since 2013, was wanted for his engagement successful a high-profile execution lawsuit successful Tilak Nagar. The lawsuit was a declaration sidesplitting orchestrated by the victim’s member implicit a spot dispute. A 50,000 rupees reward had been placed connected Banarsi’s caput aft helium evaded constabulary seizure for years, moving betwixt states and changing identities to stay hidden.

The execution successful question took spot successful 2013 erstwhile Jitender Lamba was allegedly gunned down connected the orders of his brother, Rajesh Singh Lamba. Rajesh, embroiled successful a bitter spot feud with Jitender, hired a notorious criminal, Ravinder Rathi, to transportation retired the killing, arsenic per the police.

Rathi, successful turn, recruited Mukesh Kumar Soni, who successful crook hired Banarsi and different associates to execute the plan. On the time of the murder, Banarsi provided firearms and served arsenic the backup for the killers, ensuring they had a wide flight route. While each the different accomplices were arrested implicit the years, Banarsi remained astatine large.

How Banarsi was held

The constabulary squad liable for the apprehension faced galore challenges. Despite the years that had passed since Banarsi’s escape, the squad pieced unneurotic clues from his aged contacts, telephone records, and surveillance footage.

“As the lawsuit was rather old, Banarsi’s erstwhile mobile numbers were either recovered switched disconnected oregon allotted to different users. The squad had to analyse hundreds of mobile numbers from the past 10 years utilized by Banarsi’s arrested associates, arsenic good arsenic their friends. Finally, Head Constable Naveen recovered progressive mobile numbers of Banarsi’s distant relatives successful Jharkhand,” said DCP Crime Branch Sanjay Sain.

“On further analysis, 1 mobile fig was yet recovered whose enactment was highly suspicious, due to the fact that it lone operated for a fewer minutes successful a day. The determination of the fig was perpetually shown successful the wood country of the Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand border. Finding this mobile fig was similar trying to find a needle successful the haystack,” DCP Sain explained.

The constabulary squad yet had to scope the determination and disguise themselves arsenic labourers to enactment with the section labourers and get entree to the wood area. After days of surveillance, they successfully located and arrested Banarsi, who had been surviving nether the alias Mritunjay Singh and moving arsenic a motortruck operator successful the region.

During interrogation, Banarsi allegedly admitted to his relation successful the declaration killing, revealing that helium had taken the occupation solely for fiscal gains. Orphaned astatine a young age, Banarsi, primitively from Varanasi, moved to Jharkhand to enactment arsenic a driver. It was during this clip that helium connected with the different accused, including Mukesh Kumar Soni, who had been hired to transportation retired the murder.

With nary adjacent relatives and a hopeless request for money, Banarsi agreed to assistance successful the execution plot, the constabulary said. After the killing, helium would determination to antithetic locations earlier yet settling successful the forests of Jharkhand, wherever helium assumed a caller individuality and bought a motortruck to support a debased profile, the constabulary further informed.