Agra: A 25-year-old was kidnapped by his buddies for a ransom of Rs. 2 crores on June twenty first. He was later murdered the identical night time after which cremated at Balkeshwar Ghat after they handed him off as a Covid affected person.
Sachin Chauhan was the one son of chilly storage proprietor Suresh Chauhan, his members of the family had filed a lacking particular person grievance however he couldn’t be traced.
On Sunday night time, the Special Task Force acquired a tip-off after which they detained 5 folks, together with Sachin’s shut pal Harsh Chauhan, who’s the son of his father’s enterprise associate. They confessed to the homicide which led to the arrest of Sachin Aswani, 32, Happy Khanna, 35, Manoj Bansal, 30, Rinku, 25, and Harsh Chauhan, 24.
According to police, Sachin and Harsh used to regularly go to a sports activities membership owned by Aswani in Agra’s Dayalbagh space.
Sachin grew to become buddies with Aswani and started to borrow cash from him. When the borrowed quantity reached Rs 40 lakh, Aswani requested Sachin to return the cash, however he was not keen to pay it again.
Aswani and Harsh then made a plan to kidnap Sachin and demand a ransom of Rs 2 crore from his father.
On June 21, Aswani referred to as Sachin to affix them for a booze social gathering at Khaspur village. He was allegedly smothered to demise by the accused.
SSP Muniraj G. stated, “In a bid to mislead the police, the accused bought PPE kits from a medical shop in Kamla Nagar and after covering themselves, they cremated his body at Balkeshwar under a fake name. The next day, Aswani’s cousin Happy Khanna and his friend Rinku collected his ashes and immersed them in the Yamuna.”
STF inspector Uday Pratap Singh stated that the accused made the error of giving considered one of their relative’s contact numbers on the ghat. After cremation, Happy’s pal Manoj Bansal took Sachin’s cell phone to Kanpur to mislead the police. Police stated that Manoj was to make the ransom name for Rs 2 crore however he couldn’t collect the braveness to take action.
“When he got a call from Sachin’s mother on his number, he told her that Sachin was sleeping and they were in Noida,” stated the police.
The household received suspicious and filed a lacking grievance on June 22, police stated.
 (With info from IANS)
