GHAZIABAD: Two males in search of a change of their fortunes launched into a sinister plot. Step one was to search for a ‘disposable’ goal who additionally wanted to be an orphan. They zeroed in on a drug addict. Over per week, they befriended him by providing him alcohol. Then they hung him from a ceiling fan. When he handed away, they chopped his head off with a knife, simply as they’d been suggested by a black magic practitioner.
It was, they believed, the sacrifice ritual that might realign their stars and discover them a method out of penury.
Vikas Gupta (24) and Dhananjay Saini (22), each from Muzaffarnagar, have been sad with their meagre incomes. Whereas Gupta drove an auto in Delhi, Saini was a prepare dinner at an eatery within the capital. They stayed in rented homes at GTB Enclave in Delhi.
The 2 have been arrested for the homicide on Friday. Police are in search of Vikash alias Parmatma, an e-rickshaw driver who shared a room with Gupta in Delhi. It was Parmatma who claimed to know black magic and satisfied Gupta and Saini that they might get Rs 5 lakh every if they might carry him the severed head of an orphan.
The 2 got here to find out about Raju – a employee at a meals cart who was hooked on medication. Initially from Motihari in Bihar, Raju (29) had misplaced his mother and father at an early age, stayed alone and hardly had any contact along with his kinfolk – which meant no one would enquire about him if he went lacking.
On June 22, police discovered a headless physique off Loni-Bhopura highway. Nimish Patil, DCP (trans-Hindon), stated after photos of the headless physique have been circulated in close by police stations, Ganesh Shah, a relative of Raju, recognized him. The cops zeroed in on Gupta from CCTV footage, which confirmed an auto-rickshaw bearing the registration quantity DL1 RQ-9275. The quantity led the cops to Munna, Gupta’s uncle who owned the car. It was revealed that Gupta drove the auto.
After per week of friendship, Gupta and Saini lured Raju to a rented room with provides of liquor and medicines on June 22. When he had downed a couple of pegs, the 2 – together with Parmatma – tied a fabric round his neck and hanged him from the ceiling till he suffocated to dying.
“They loaded the physique of their auto and went to a forested space close to Panchsheel in Ghaziabad. There, they severed the pinnacle with a knife, positioned it in a bucket and dumped the physique amid bushes. They then returned to their room,” stated Patil.
The three are believed to have carried out a ritual with Raju’s head within the rented room in GTB Enclave. Parmatma left the room with the pinnacle, police stated.
In accordance with cops, Gupta and Saini knew one another from earlier than as each are from Muzaffarnagar. “For lengthy, they have been in search of choices to extend their earnings. When all else failed, they appeared to black magic. And Parmatma, who stayed in the identical room with certainly one of them, lured them with the promise that he may change their fortunes,” Patil stated.
A case was registered in opposition to Gupta and Saini below Part 302 (homicide) and different provisions of IPC.
