24-05-2025
Friends kill man after fight over drinks in Ghaziabad, burn his body; 5 nabbed
Ghaziabad: Two days after police recovered a partially burned skeleton and some ashes in a sugarcane field behind Heritage School in Modinagar area, five people have been arrested in connection with the crime.
Forty-year-old Umashankar Sharma had been missing since April 27. Initial probe suggests the accused—Neeraj Saini (33), Ajay Singh (29), Pankaj Saini (19), Manoj Saini (22) and Gaurav Saini (20)—killed Umashankar on April 27 following a scuffle while they were sharing drinks.
Modinagar ACP Gyan Prakash Rai said Umashankar was working with the five suspects in putting up flex banners. It is believed that after the body was set ablaze, animals scavenged it
Umashankar's brother Dushyantidentified the skeleton on the basis of some clothes found at the spot.
A forensic examination to identify the body is accused were booked under BNS sections of 103 (murder), 191 (2) (punishment for rioting) and 238 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence, or giving false information to screen offender).
The ACP said, "A missing person report for Umashankar was filed on May 20. On May 21, the police discovered skeletal remains in the forest behind Heritage School.
Based on this information, the police arrested all five and during questioning, the accused confessed to their crime," the ACP said
During probe, we found Umashankar, Ajay, and Neeraj were drinkingat Nai Sohan Dhaba.
After some time, other friends Pankaj Saini, Manoj Saini, and Gaurav Saini alias Kalu arrived at the hotel and, they decided to a secluded spot behind the school," Rai said.
"While drinking, a scuffle broke out between them and Umashankar hurled abuses at them. When Umashankar didn't stop, the five of them killed him and hid his body in the bushes
Two days later, they went back to the spot and burnt the body," the ACP said.
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