In connection with the murder of a 35-year-old journalist and his friend in Uttar Pradesh’s Balram district, three persons have been arrested, police said on Monday.
Lalit Mishra, Keshvanand Mishra alias Rinku and Akram Ali were arrested for the murder of journalist Rakesh Singh and his friend Pintu Sahu from a jungle near Bahadurpur crossing, Superintendent of Police, Balrampur, Devranjan Verma said. The trio has confessed to their crime, he added.
He said that the accused went to the journalist’s house over the pretext of talking about something, made the victims drink alcohol and then killed them. Verma said that the accused then used alcohol-based hand sanitizer to burn down Singh’s house to make it look like an accident. “To burn the house using the chemical, Lalit Mishra and Keshvanand Mishra took the help of Akram Ali alias Abdul Qadir, who is an expert in executing incidents like these,” the police officer added.
Verma said Keshvanand's mother was a village head and Singh had exposed siphoning off of funds under her. The accused hold a grudge against Singh over it.
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