JAIPUR: Five murders within a span of 24 hours have stunned the city at a time when extra policemen were deployed for patwari exams.
The murders were reported from Lal Kothi, Sanganer, SMS and SEZ police station areas.
The first incident took place on Friday when a 25-year-old girl from Pune was killed by a bike-borne youth near Sitabari bus stand under Sanganer police station area. Zoya Mallik had come to meet her friend when a masked man stabbed her in full public view leading to her death in a hospital.
DCP (East) Prahlad Krishniya said investigation was underway and police would soon arrest the culprit. Two murders were reported by Lal Kothi police on Saturday morning when Sabir Ali (65) and her daughter Nafia (35) died following a deadly dispute over a drain between two groups of relatives outside their Ghat Gate house.
Two of Sabir’s sons are undergoing treatment in a hospital, even as police claimed that arrests would be made soon. “The murder took place due to a scuffle between relatives. We will arrest the accused soon,” said an official.
Aman Lodha (36), a stationary shopkeeper, was stabbed to death by one Yansh Taksali (23) over a financial dispute on Saturday evening.
Police arrested the accused on Sunday and claimed that Taksali killed Lodha with a sharp weapon. Lodha was bleeding profusely when he was ferried to a hospital and died on the way.
In Nevta, a 36-year-old woman identified as Pramila Devi died under mysterious circumstances on Saturday. Police filed a case of murder against her neighbours even though the post-mortem report was yet to come.
“We have filed a case of murder based on the complaint by her family members, but we are waiting for the autopsy report to ascertain the cause of death,” said SHO Satyapal Singh.
