Excelsior Correspondent
RAJOURI, July 3: The police has converted a mysterious death of man into murder case and has also managed to arrest the prime accused with the help of writings on Thermocol sheet that was found wrapped with the body.
SSP Rajouri, Yougal Manhas said that May 29, 2018, an information was received at Police Station Nowshera that one partially decomposed un-identified dead body was found floating in the river Manwar Tawi, Nowshera near Lift Irrigation Scheme, Rajal and a police team was swung into action which conducted spot verification and it was observed that the dead body was wrapped in a blanket and was tied by ropes in a Thermocol material.
The police team during investigation under SDPO Nowshera Khaliq Choudhary, found that the Thermocol sheet recovered from the spot was written with two names; Aftab and Azhar Ali and the hand writing was most probably of some child “ said Manhas.
With this clue the team started its work of finding out and locating the children and conducted a thorough study of the scene of crime in a circumference of almost 500 metres besides carrying out a census regarding the names written on Thermocol and while carrying out the census it came to the fore that Aftab is the child of one Mohd Farooq, son of Jameel Hussain, resident of Rajal near Irrigation Department Dak Banglow and Azhar Ali is the son of Mohd Mushtaq, son of Jameel Hussain, resident of Garan and both these children used to go to house of their neighbour who was commonly known as Younis with an aim to play with his children.
Both these boys revealed that they wrote their names on the Thermocol sheet in the house of Younis. The deceased came to be identified as Manzoor Hussain, son of Khoju, resident of Ward No.4 Qasba Bala Nowshera who was a Mason by profession and had gone missing on May 26, 2018 morning. After hectic efforts, the team succeeded in apprehending the accused Zahoor Hussain alias Yunis, son of feroz Din, resident of Bishnah from a Dhok in Bhaderwah area. Illicit relations with wife of the accused, is said to be cause of murder.