New Delhi:
Six persons, including a couple, were arrested for allegedly murdering a taxi driver while returning from a picnic in Mussorie and fleeing with his car, police said on Tuesday.
The gang was apprehended recently from Sarai Kale Khan recently on a tip off, Additional Commissioner of Police (Crime) Neeraj Thakur said.
The arrested have been identified as Jaswant (29), his wife Asha (35), Suraj (19), Ashu (19), Rishi Ralhan (29) and Kiran Pal.
Jaswant allegedly hatched the plan to hire the taxi from Delhi and then take it away after killing the driver.
"He created a fake identity in the name of one Satya Prakash and hired a Toyota Innova van from a travel agency in Delhi for a trip from Delhi to Mussoorie via Dehradun," Thakur said.
On September 24, Jaswant called the taxi to an address in Gole Market area. When driver Manish Mann reached the place, he found all the six persons standing on the road waiting for him.
All of them boarded the car and reached Hardwar. They stayed in Hardwar on September 25 and left for Mussoorie the next day, Thakur said.
While on return journey to Delhi on September 27, Mann was strangled and then shot at in Saharanpur in UP.
"They dumped his body in the jungle and returned to Delhi in the car. They had been trying to sell the vehicle and had kept it parked in Prasad Nagar," Thakur said.
The gang was apprehended recently from Sarai Kale Khan recently on a tip off, Additional Commissioner of Police (Crime) Neeraj Thakur said.
The arrested have been identified as Jaswant (29), his wife Asha (35), Suraj (19), Ashu (19), Rishi Ralhan (29) and Kiran Pal.
Jaswant allegedly hatched the plan to hire the taxi from Delhi and then take it away after killing the driver.
"He created a fake identity in the name of one Satya Prakash and hired a Toyota Innova van from a travel agency in Delhi for a trip from Delhi to Mussoorie via Dehradun," Thakur said.
On September 24, Jaswant called the taxi to an address in Gole Market area. When driver Manish Mann reached the place, he found all the six persons standing on the road waiting for him.
All of them boarded the car and reached Hardwar. They stayed in Hardwar on September 25 and left for Mussoorie the next day, Thakur said.
While on return journey to Delhi on September 27, Mann was strangled and then shot at in Saharanpur in UP.
"They dumped his body in the jungle and returned to Delhi in the car. They had been trying to sell the vehicle and had kept it parked in Prasad Nagar," Thakur said.
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