The important accused, who had allegedly ignited the fireplace in a three-storey residential constructing in Madhya Pradesh’s Indore that left seven folks lifeless and 9 others injured, has been arrested by police.
Upon seeing the police, the accused, Shubham aka Sanjay Dixit (27), tried to flee and within the course of fell on the street in Lohamandi space and acquired injured, Indore’s Vijay Nagar police station in-charge Tehzeeb Qazi informed PTI, including that the person was being questioned.
The accused was nabbed on the intervening night time of Saturday and Sunday and booked beneath Indian Penal Code Sections 302 (homicide) and 436 (mischief by hearth aspiring to trigger destruction of any constructing), the police mentioned.
He had fled after allegedly torching the scooter of a lady residing within the residential constructing in Vijay Nagar locality on Saturday after she rejected his marriage provide.
Dixit, who initially hails from Jhansi in Uttar Pradesh, was working in a non-public agency right here for the final couple of months, the police official mentioned.
Meanwhile, a video surfaced on social media purportedly exhibiting Dixit, having bleeding on fingers and legs, mendacity on a stretcher in a hospital right here, writhing in ache.
Qazi mentioned Dixit was injured when he tried to climb a street divider to evade arrest.
On Saturday morning, Dixit had allegedly torched the girl’s scooter following which the fireplace from the constructing’s parking space unfold upwards, engulfing the premises, police earlier mentioned.
“Initially, it had appeared that a short-circuit caused the fire. But, after scanning CCTV footage of the houses near the gutted building, police found that a man ignited the blaze by setting fire to a vehicle in the building’s parking area. The flames spread and engulfed the three-storey building,” an official mentioned.
The accused had vacated a rented flat within the constructing six months in the past. He wished to marry the girl who lived in the identical constructing, however she was going to marry one other individual, the police mentioned.
Dixit and the girl additionally had a quarrel over Rs 10,000, that they had mentioned.
After setting the girl’s automobile on hearth, Dixit fled to his good friend’s place in Niranjanpur space and later moved to Lohamandi space, the police mentioned.
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