Truck driver’s murder solved
Surinder Bhardwaj
Fatehgarh Sahib, May 1
The district police claim to have solved the mystery of the blind murder of a truck driver in 48 hours with the arrest of the truck cleaner.
The half-burnt body was found amid bushes on the GT Road near Sirhind a few days ago. The cleaner, along with the loaded truck, was missing. The police also recovered the truck loaded with iron goods from Nirmal Dhaba, four kms away from the crime spot.
Addressing the media, SSP Amneet Kondal said two days ago, the Sirhind police have recovered the half-burnt body and it was very difficult to identify the victim. She said a SIT, led by SP(Investigation) JS Jallah, Fatehgarh Sahib DSP Manjit Singh and Sirhind SHO GS Sikand was constituted. They succeeded in identifying the deceased as a truck driver, Om Pal, who was a resident of Chandpur village in Roorkee and working with DS Transport Company of Ludhiana. She said the SIT solved the murder in 48 hours and arrested the cleaner of the truck, identified as Rohit Sharma of Amritsar.
Jallah said the truck was found from a dhaba and after identifying its owner, the police came to know that truck driver was accompanied by the cleaner. He said the police arrested the cleaner and during investigation, he revealed that at 12.30 pm, they had a quarrel over a cell phone following which he had hit the driver with an iron road and he died on the spot. He wrapped his body in a blanket and set it on fire. He took the truck and parked it at Nirmal Dhabha and fled away. He said the cleaner would be presented in a court.
