Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Jan 5: Delhi Police held a press conference on Thursday. The police said that two more people have emerged as suspects in the horrific incident that took place in Delhi’s Khanjawala on New Year’s night in which a 20-year-old woman died after her scooter was hit by a car and dragged for a few kilometres under the wheels.
Addressing the press conference, Special Commissioner of Police (Law & Order) Delhi Police Sagar Preet Hooda said the men are Ashutosh, the owner of the car, and Ankush, the brother of one of the accused. He said the two suspects would be arrested soon.
“We have arrested five accused and we are interrogating them. During interrogation, we found that two more people are involved in the incident. Our team is conducting raids,” said senior police officer Hooda.
The names of the other two accused are Ashutosh and Ankush Khanna. We are in search of them. Both of them are the friends of the five men under custody. They tried to protect the 5 accused: Special CP(L&O) Sagar Preet Hooda https://t.co/RiB9CIesYi pic.twitter.com/NasRho788C
— ANI (@ANI) January 5, 2023
“The names of the other two accused are Ashutosh and Ankush Khanna. We are in search of them. Both of them are the friends of the five men under custody. They tried to protect the five accused,” he added.
According to the police commissioner, the two also attempted to tamper with the evidence as they tried to help the accused.
Kanjhawala death case | We are trying to file the charge sheet as early as possible. A total of 18 teams of Delhi Police are investigating this case. Two new accused have tried to tamper the evidence and have given misinformation as they tried to help the accused: Special CP(L&O) pic.twitter.com/sDcvPjJsud
— ANI (@ANI) January 5, 2023
A total of 18 teams of Delhi Police are investigating the case.
“We are trying to file the charge sheet as early as possible. During the post-mortem, no evidence of sexual assault was found,” said the Special CP.
According to the police, the statement of eyewitness Nidhi has been recorded and no link has been found between the eye witness and the accused.
The statement of the eyewitness Nidhi recorded. No link found between the eye witness and accused. We can only give a statement if she was drunk or not only after the post-mortem report, it does not have relevance to this case, as it is a case u/s 304 IPC: Special CP(L&O) pic.twitter.com/oHErhUjLWx
— ANI (@ANI) January 5, 2023
“We can only give a statement if she was drunk or not only after the post-mortem report, it does not have relevance to this case, as it is a case under section 304 of the IPC,” informed Special CP Hooda.
