3 more remanded to police custody

By Our Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI, JULY 31. The Metropolitan Magistrate, Mr. M.C. Gupta, today remanded three of the four accused in the Phoolan Devi murder case to 14 days police custody. The Delhi Police Crime Branch arrested them at Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh on Monday. The three are Shekhar Singh, Rajender Singh alias Ravinder and Rajbeer Singh.

The prime accused, Sher Singh Rana alias Pankaj Singh, was remanded to police custody for 10 days on Saturday.

Counsel for the crime branch, Mr. Irfan Ahmed, said police had to unearth the criminal conspiracy to get to the motive of the killing.

The three had changed the numberplate of the Maruti car in which they had escaped to Rishikesh after committing the crime. Hence the police have to recover the numberplate and as well find out the hide-outs where they might have stayed on the way to Rishikesh, counsel said. Besides, a mobile phone and two SIM cards which they had bought from a Delhi shop were to be recovered. The chain of conspiracy led to Roorkee, Hardwar, Rishikesh in U.P. and Yamuna Nagar in Haryana, and the accused had to be taken to these places to tie up the loose ends of the case, he said.

The investigating officer, Mr. Suresh Kaushik, said the accused planned the murder so well that they appeared before the media before giving up to the police to ensure that the investigating agency does not conduct a test identification parade.

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