Another held in connection with Nainital murder case

Uttarakhand police has arrested a man from Uttar Pradesh in connection with murder of a 27-year-old man, whose body was found in Nainital district on May 12, an official said on Sunday

Published on: Jun 3, 2018, 21:39:49 IST

Hindustan Times, Nainital | By Neeraj Santoshi

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Uttarakhand police has arrested a man from Uttar Pradesh in connection with murder of a 27-year-old man, whose body was found in Nainital district on May 12, an official said on Sunday.

A man’s body was found in Nainital on May 12. (HT File)

Vipin Chandra Pant, Maliltal police station in-charge, said after the murdered man was identified as Manoj Singh from Uttar Pradesh’s Moradabad district, police found that there was a land dispute between Manoj and his younger brother Ravi Singh.

On May 26, Uttarakhand police arrested Ravi from Uttar Pradesh. During questioning, Pant said, the deceased’s brother revealed that he had sought help from his friend.

“Sanjeev Kumar, 41, had made Manoj drunk before he was murdered. We have arrested him and we are questioning him to ascertain the extent of his role in the murder. We are also looking into his call details to see his location during the time of murder,” he said.

Pant said Kumar had come to Nainital and he was arrested on an input from an informer.

Police said during interrogation, Ravi admitted that he murdered his elder brother. A case was lodged against Ravi under under Indian Penal Code sections for murder and causing disappearance of evidence of offence, or giving false information to screen offender.

On May 12, local residents informed police that there was a body lying 10 to 15 metres off the road nearly 2 km from Bajun towards Kaladungi. The spot is nearly 15 km from Nainital.

Police reached the spot and found the body with its hands and feet tied and a cloth strip around its neck. After much difficulty, police was able to identify the body.

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Neeraj Santoshi
Neeraj Santoshi is the Chief of Bureau for Hindustan Times in Uttarakhand, where he leads the state reporting team while covering government, politics, environment, wildlife, Uttarakhand High Court, and issues shaping the Himalayan region. With more than two decades in journalism across conflict zones, he has covered politically sensitive regions and environmentally fragile landscapes, and focused on stories that combine public interest with in-depth storytelling. An alumnus of Pune University with a Master’s in Communication Studies, he has reported extensively from Jammu & Kashmir (2003-2010), Madhya Pradesh (2010 to 2018 ) and Uttarakhand (Since 2018), covering subjects ranging from insurgency, elections and governance to wildlife conservation, mining, climate change, agriculture, human rights and social justice. He has covered politics and legislative assemblies of both Jammu & Kashmir and Madhya Pradesh over more than a decade. Before taking over as Chief of Bureau in Uttarakhand, he served as Special Correspondent with Hindustan Times in Madhya Pradesh and earlier reported for both Hindustan Times and The Indian Express in Jammu & Kashmir, where he covered state politics, environment and insurgency-related developments. Over the years, his stories have focused on environmental degradation, wildlife, illegal mining, governance and the changing social fabric of Himalayan states and Central India. He is particularly interested in long-form explanatory journalism, and stories that explore the intersection of ecology, conservation, governance and society. Outside the newsroom, Neeraj enjoys reading widely on neuroscience, consciousness studies, Artificial Intelligence and quantum physics, with a special interest in Kashmiri Tantric Shaivist traditions. He is also passionate about wildlife, mountaineering and the Himalayas, interests that continue to inform his reporting and deepen his understanding of the region he covers.Read More

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