Nari Lepcha send to 5-day police custody

New Delhi, Mar 12 (UNI) A city court today remanded India Reserve Battalion constable Nari Lepcha who shot dead five Sikkim Police personnel here yesterday, to five-day police custody.

Taking up the case in his chamber, Metropolitan Magistrate Sanjay Jindal sent Lepcha to police custody till March 16.

The accused had shot dead five Sikkim Police personnel guarding a bank in Old Delhi early yesterday.

Lepcha had first accused his colleague J S Subba of committing the crime in order to mislead the investigators. Later, however, he confessed to the killings.

The police claimed that some of Lepcha's colleagues had tried to sodomise him, at which Lepcha picked up his service weapon and killed three of them. One of the Sikkim Police personnel Luxman Subba attacked him with an axe, causing an injury on his right shoulder but Lepcha was able to overpower Subba and killed him and another constable.

UNI