After killing the cloth merchant, the criminals openly roamed in Jamshedpur carrying the dead body in the car, then called the son and demanded ransom. After receiving the complaint to the police, the criminal was arrested by running a campaign
Jamshedpur: After killing the city's textile trader Dharmendra Singh on Thursday, the accused and his accomplices kept the dead body in a bag and roamed around the city for hours. Meanwhile, he called his son from the businessman's mobile and asked for a ransom of 50 lakhs. On the complaint of the son, the police launched a campaign and arrested the accused Vishwajeet Pradhan near Kadma DBMS School at around 2.20 pm on Thursday. Police recovered the body of the businessman from the bag kept in the trunk.
Police is busy in arresting other people involved in the incident. On the statement of businessman's son Golu Singh, an FIR has been registered in Sakchi police station against Vishwajeet Pradhan and others for murder. The murder was done by hitting the head with a bat. After the incident, the accused shopped for the bag and kept the body in the bag and kept it in the trunk of the car and kept roaming. Helmet and broken wicket had been put on top of the bag, so that there is no doubt.
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Accused's statement:
Accused Vishwajit Pradhan told that Dharmendra Singh often used to bring women and girls to his quarters in the absence of the family. Dharmendra also had a business of Sood. He has also dealt with them many times. On Thursday also Dharmendra had reached his quarters with a woman from Scooty. After some time, the woman's husband and his companion came and threatened.
After this there was a dispute between Dharmendra and the woman's husband and partner. In the dispute, they killed Dharmendra Singh with a bat and sent a message to his son from the businessman's mobile and demanded a ransom of Rs 50 lakh.