Lucknow: In a strange case, a group of drug addicts allegedly strangled other addicts and brought their bodies to the Government Train Police (GRP) as a ‘unclaimed body’ for cash.
They intend to use money to buy Black Tar Heroin (hit) for their regular dose poisoning.
According to the police, the victim refused to share a blow with the man accused.
On Monday, GRP Lucknow sent all three accused – Sarvesh Kumar Sonkar (22), Santosh Yadav (35) and Bablu Kahar (25) – for prison for alleged murder.
Station’s house officer Anjani Kumar Mishra said, “Early on December 2, Trio brought the victim’s body in a rickshaw to the Lucknow train station.
They approached GRP personnel and claimed that they had found their bodies around the railway line.
Trio demands cash to cremate the body .
However, their request was denied and the body was arrested and sent to the morgue.
“” According to the SOP for the body that are not claimed, we do a postmortem examination after 72 hours because no one came to claim it.
the report revealed that the victim had been strangled.
This causes Suspicion of murder.
We called the three defendants who had brought our bodies.
During the interrogation, the three claimed that Sarvesh suffocated the victim, while the other two helped him, “Sho said.
He added, “The fourth including the victim is a drug addict.
The three have killed their acquaintances after he refused to share a blow with them.
After the murder, the trio assumed that the police would give them cash to cremate a body that was not claimed.
The pedicab where they carry the body Owned by Santosh.
“CCTV footage from the train station confirmed the trio had brought the body to the station with a pedicab.
According to GRP, the government pays Rs 5,000 to cremate an unclaimed body.
However, payments are made to the police and not on civilians for cremation.