Uttarakhand: Four people arrested in Haldwani double-murder case

Subsequently, they allegedly crushed Shubham and Lakshmis heads with stones to conceal their identities, the SSP said. The SSP stated that the stone allegedly used in the murder, mobile phones, and blood-stained clothes belonging to Gaurav and Deepu Sharma have been recovered.

Police arrested four accused in connection with the double-murder case on Thursday at Haldwani in the Nainital district of Uttarakhand, officials said. The bodies of a young man and a young woman were found lying in the Galla Mandi area of ​​the Mandi complex in the morning, and their heads were crushed with stones. Nainital Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Manjunath TC said here that on the basis of documents, the deceased were identified as 31-year-old Shubham Tamta, a resident of Almora, and 19-year-old Laxmi Pokhariya, a resident of Okhalkanda, Nainital. He said that after the identification of the bodies, the police reached the accused through physical evidence of the incident, CCTV footage and other means, and they were arrested. The accused have been identified as Gaurav Negi alias Akku Thakur (25), Saurabh Bhatt alias Bhatia (20), Deepu Sharma alias Dhruv (20), and Deepesh Latwal (25), all residents of Haldwani. The SSP said that during interrogation, the accused revealed that they were drinking along with Shubham and Lakshmi, when one of the accused began molesting Lakshmi, which Shubham resisted. They allegedly killed Shubham following a quarrel, and later killed Lakshmi to destroy the evidence. Subsequently, they allegedly crushed Shubham and Lakshmi's heads with stones to conceal their identities, the SSP said. The SSP stated that the stone allegedly used in the murder, mobile phones, and blood-stained clothes belonging to Gaurav and Deepu Sharma have been recovered. He stated that Gaurav and Deepu are both habitual criminals and have 11 and three previous cases registered against them, respectively.

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