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Special commissioner Ravindra Yadav told TOI that they had arrested Rana, his brother-in-law and a friend.
Rana allegedly strangled Yadav (28) and dumped her body in a drain in north Delhi.The police have retrieved the skeletal remains and sent them for DNA profiling. Rana had wanted to marry Yadav, his PCR unit colleague. Her repeated rejection led him to plot her murder, police said. On the pretext of taken her to his home in Alipur, Rana allegedly murdered her in Burari Pushta.What has emerged is an elaborate, insidious web of false leads that Rana generated to keep Yadav’s family thinking that she was alive.
Rana’s brother-in-law has been identified as Ravin (26), from Jhajjar, a BCom graduate and ran a stationery shop. The third suspect, Rajpal, is his helper in the shop.
The police at Mukherjee Nagar had received a complaint regarding Yadav’s disappearance on October 20, 2021. Her family said Yadav was missing since September 8, 2021.
Two years after the local police failed to trace her, an FIR of abduction was registered in April this year after police commissioner Sanjay Arora’s intervention. The investigation was transferred to a crime branch team led by DCP Sanjay Bhatia in July.
Despite the G20 Summit, the probe continued. Rapid developments happened in the last one week.
The police first traced Rajpal who had got a fake SIM card and then caught Ravin who spilled the beans on Rana.
Constable Rana confessed he and Yadav had a fight on September 8, 2021, as she was not keen on him and threatened to reveal his activities. He got angry and decided to kill her, he said.
Police said that after the murder, Rana kept visiting her family, even attended social events. He took the assistance of Ravin, who used to make phone calls to the family, adopting the persona of “Arvind”. These orchestrated calls conveyed a fabricated narrative that Yadav had eloped with Arvind and married him.
Rana generated fictitious leads and the Yadavs pursued these. He even visited Mukherjee Nagar police station, often telling investigating officers to diligently probe the case. He took her relatives to various places on the pretext of a search.
Rana also scattered copies of Yadav’s identification documents at various locations, creating an illusion that she had visited Punjab, Haryana and Himachal. He even fabricated a false Covid document in her name.
The suspect accompanied a woman to hotels to establish alibis.
The constable had kept Yadav’s phone. He exploited previously recorded conversations of Yadav to mislead her family. By juxtaposing the recordings and placing calls from different locations, he created an illusion that Yadav was alive somewhere.
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