Six held for murder, loot

Shajapur(MP), May 17 (UNI) Six people were arrested yesterday on the charge of murdering a container driver and looting tyres valued at Rs 20 lakh on Indore-Kota Road near Agar in this district a month ago, police said.

The tyre company honoured this accomplishment of police with a reward of Rs 1 lakh and handed over a bank draft yesterday.

Superintendent of Police Dr Asha Mathur said an unidentified corpse had been recovered from a well at Sirpoyi village near Agar on April 27. On the same day, a container of tyres plying from Hyderabad to Delhi was found empty at Modak in Kota district of Rajasthan.

Later, police identified the deceased as tyre-container driver Bahadur Singh from his clothes and other articles.

Later, 2700 tyres worth about Rs 20 lakh were recovered from the godown of Agar-resident businessman Purushottam Kasera.

Vikram Sondhia, Gowardhan Sondhia, Kailash Malviya, Dharmendra Sharma and Heeralal Darji, besides Kasera were arrested and they confessed the crime during interrogation, Dr Mathur said.

The accused revealed that they killed Bahadur Singh after forcing him to drink large quantity of alcohol at a 'Dhaba' (roadside restaurant) in Ujjain. They tampered with the body to destroy identity and dumped the body in a well near Agar.

They also sold tyres worth Rs 1 lakh to an Indore-based businessman Arjun Singh Sardar, who was yet to be arrested.

UNI