Through PTI
AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) has arrested a person, who used to be sought after for the kidnapping and homicide of a Kolkata-based jeweller, from neighbouring Maharashtra, an reliable stated on Wednesday.
A staff of the ATS nabbed the accused Vishal Sharma from Shirdi in neighbouring Maharashtra, and has introduced him to Ahmedabad for wondering, he stated.
Sharma, a local of Delhi, used to be sought after by way of the police in Kolkata and Odisha, with the latter having introduced a praise of Rs 50,000 for info on his whereabouts, the ATS stated in a remark.
On February 14, jeweller Shantilal Vaid (66) used to be discovered strangled to loss of life at a visitor space in Kolkata’s Bhowanipore space.
Vaid were kidnapped and his circle of relatives were requested to pay a ransom of Rs 1 crore, of which they’d paid Rs 25 lakh.
The Kolkata police started the investigation in response to the CCTV photos and proof from the crime scene.
Later, the police at Cuttack and Bhubaneswar of Odisha additionally joined the probe, the discharge said.
The Gujarat ATS had won knowledge that the accused used to be hiding in a lodge in Ahmedabad’s Raipur Darwaja space, and following a probe, it used to be discovered that he used to be hiding in Shirdi by way of converting his identification, it used to be said.
