Budaun double murder: Second accused nabbed, cops may conduct narco test

Cops claim deceased accused, Mohd Sajid, 27, allegedly killed two minor boys in a state of depression; he was gunned down in an encounter with police 3 hours after the incident on Tuesday

LUCKNOW The Budaun police on Thursday claimed that Mohd Sajid, 27, who allegedly killed two minor siblings on Tuesday, committed the gruesome crime in a state of depression. Sajid’s younger brother and co-accused in the double murder case, Mohd Javed, 24, gave this information during interrogation after he surrendered before cops on Thursday, said SP (Budaun) Alok Priyadarshi.

The encounter of the key accused created suspense over the motive behind the siblings’ murders. Investigators had no clarity on what drove Sajid, who ran a barber shop across the victims’ house and was, in fact, on good terms with the family, to brutally attack the two brothers with a knife. (Pic for representation)

Javed also informed that Sajid was depressed after his wife suffered miscarriages and tried to kill himself in the past. A police team had gone to question his wife, said cops.

Mohd Javed, who was wanted for the murders of two minor siblings in their house in Budaun’s Baba Colony on Tuesday night, was arrested in Bareilly on Thursday. He appeared at the Satellite police outpost in Bareilly late on Wednesday night, after which he was arrested and brought to Budaun for interrogation, said the SP.

“We are crosschecking facts and will recreate the sequence of crime with the help of Javed. The police could also opt for narco test, if required, to extract the truth behind the incident,” he added.

“Javed informed that Sajid was feeling unwell on the day of the incident and that he too had visited the victims’ house at the time of incident. Javed fled after spotting his brother holding a knife in hand and blood stains on his clothes,” he said, adding, “Even the victims’ mother Sangeeta Singh informed that Sajid had told her that he was feeling unwell and went up on the terrace where he murdered her two sons,” said the SP.

Mohd Sajid had allegedly killed two minor brothers - Aayush, 14, and Aahan, 6 - sons of a contractor, Vinod Kumar Singh, after entering their house to demand ₹5000 from their mother on the pretext of treatment of his pregnant wife Sana. Sajid was gunned down in an encounter with the police three hours after the incident on Tuesday night.

The post-mortem report confirmed that Sajid, after slitting the throats of the two children, had stabbed them multiple times.

The encounter of the key accused created suspense over the motive behind the siblings’ murders. Investigators had no clarity on what drove Sajid, who ran a barber shop across the victims’ house and was on good terms with the family, to brutally attack the two brothers with a knife. Javed’s arrest was crucial to establish the motive behind the crime, said cops.

The SP said Javed had been taken into custody after the Budaun police approached Bareilly cops. Javed appeared before cops under pressure as a reward of ₹25,000 was declared for his arrest. He apparently made a viral video stating that his brother committed the crime, he added.

In the viral video, the accused was purportedly talking to some people, saying that he fled to Delhi fearing being lynched by a mob at the victims’ house when he reached there after coming to know about the incident. He later went to Bareilly to surrender after finding out that he was also accused in the case.

The victims’ father, Vinod Kumar Singh, urged the police to question Javed thoroughly to clear the motive behind his sons’ killings.

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