Cracking the murder case of 23-year-old Begowal Youth,the Kapurthala Police have arrested a murder accused after an over 20-day long, 1900-km chase across six states.
The accused has been identified as Daljit Singh Sheraa resident of Kartarpur Jalandhar.
In a press release, Senior Superintendent of PoliceHarkamalpreet Singh Khakh said that the accused has been nabbed by police teamfrom Cyberabad in Telangana.
Disclosing further information about the murder case, theSSP said that on the late evening of June 18, the accused along with some ofhis associates shot dead a 23-year-old youth, Mukul, when the latter wasreturning home from the playground. He said that the accused suspecting Mukul'sinvolvement in the murder of their gang member.
On the statement of the victim's father, the police startedthe investigation by registering a case against four gangsters named Daljit SinghShera, Mangal Singh, Lovely, and Prince at the Begowal police station.
The SSP said that on the same day the police gotinformation that the same accused snatched a white Swift car (PB07BS1713) fromTanda area of Hoshiarpur by thrashing a Pastor and firing in the air. Theaccused left their scooty used-in murder nearby, which was later recovered bythe police.
Days after the murder, accused Daljit Singh Shera tookresponsibility for the murder and also wrote a post on his Facebook andthreatened some others with dire consequences.
SSP told that police teams were technically chasing theaccused since the day of the murder but Shera was constantly changing hishideouts in different states like Haryana, UP, Bihar, Maharashtra, and Odishaand finally tracked in Telangana.
The robbed car of Tanda's Pastor was later recovered fromMaharashtra by the police where the accused left it developed a snag.
He told that on June 29, the police teams were on the wayto raid his hideout in Telangana and meanwhile got information that Shera triedto grab mobiles from some girls after showing a gun and threatening to shootthem. The girls got scared and dialled 100 after running towards the main roadfollowing which Gachibowli police reached the spot.
SSP told that the police teams arrested him there andbrought him back to Punjab today.
The police team would produce him before the magistrateand seek police remand to complete the investigation and arrest the rest of theaccused in the murder.
SSP said that the weapons used in the murder of Mukulhave also been seized by the Telangana Police in the said case.