Harinder Rai, son of Dina Nath Rai and a resident of Lhomithi Colony was a supplier in Army CSD canteen, Signal Bosti Road. He was allegedly assaulted in Lhomithi colony and he was rushed to Nikos Hospital, Dimapur where he was declared brought dead.
Talking exclusively to this Reporter, SDPO Niuland, Dimapur T. Mhonyamo Tsopoe informed that based on an FIR lodged at Sub-Urban police station on the same night of the incident, police pursued the case.
According to the post-mortem conducted at District hospital Dimapur, Harinder died due to wounds caused by bullet fired from a 7.65mm pistol on his back and stabbing by a sharp weapon. Later, police recovered one live round of 7.65 mm, a yellow T. Shirt and a lungi which was neatly wrapped in a green polythene bag including the sandal and cell-phone belonging to the victim at the spot of the crime. The SDPO disclosed that after a thorough investigation, police suspected the involvement of the victim’s wife and the mother-in-law. The mother-in-law and the wife mastermind the killing of Harinder Rai with an intention to inherit the properties of the victim.
It was also learnt that wife of the victim identified as Shalu Rai alias Salma Ansari (24) and her mother Mammu Nisha Ansari had hired one contract killer named Istiyak from Deoria, Uttar Pradesh for a sum of Rs.2 lakhs. They had already paid Rs. 50000 to Istiyak who was arrested from Deoria. Shalu and Nisha were arrested from their residence in Lhomithi colony, Dimapur, on June 6.
During the interrogation of both the wife and mother-in-law of the victim had admitted that they conspired to kill Harinder and contacted Istiyak.
When the police interrogated Istiyak, he admitted that he was a distant cousin of Shalu and that she approached him through her late father asking for help to kill Harinder Rai.
SDPO (N) also said that on October 26, 2013, the Istiyak along with two others - Manish and Javed Ansari alias Chotu, younger brother of Shalu Rai planned to kill Harinder but since he was out of station, their plan could not be executed.
On October 29, 2013 at around 10.20 p.m., the three accused went to Harinders’ residence and when they saw Harinder coming, Javed took out the 7.65 mm pistol belonging to the victim (which was handed over to the accused by the victims’ wife) and shot Harinder from behind and while trying to flee, Manish caught hold of Harinder, Istiyak stabbed him in his stomach and fled from the spot. During the course of the investigation, it was ascertained that Javed was the one who had shot Harinder.
Dimapur police filed the charge-sheets against the accused in July this year and were still putting all efforts to nab the two other absconders - Manish and Javed.
Source: Nagaland Post
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