New Delhi: The investigation into the murder of former Jammu and Kashmir legislative council member Trilochan Singh Wazir has so far revealed that the conspiracy was hatched in July. His body was shifted to Lady Hardinge Hospital after being recovered in a highly decomposed state from a flat in Basai Darapur on Thursday morning. The prime suspect in the case, Harpreet Singh, had informed the landlord that the flat would be vacated on September 10.
A police team from Jammu & Kashmir is in the capital, while two Delhi Police Crime Branch teams have gone to Amritsar, Harpreet’s home city, and another to Jammu. A three-member medical board has been constituted to carry out the postmortem.
The second suspect, Harmeet Singh, can be seen in CCTV footage outside the building where the body was discovered. Wazir, who reached Delhi on September 2, was scheduled to travel to Canada the same night. He halted at the house of Harpreet, an acquaintance, where he was murdered.
The investigators said the mobile phones of the accused were active till Wednesday evening. In her statement to the police, Harpreet’s girlfriend, who had been summoned to the flat on September 4, said she did not notice anything amiss in the house that day.
A worried family called Harpreet about Wazir’s whereabouts. He fobbed them off by saying he was probably in quarantine at Frankfurt. Police revealed that when Harmeet also started getting such calls, he blurted out the fact about the murder, leading J&K police to inform their counterparts in Delhi, who found the body in Basai Darapur.
The two accused can be seen In CCTV footage. Apparently, Harmeet had checked into an Oyo facility two doors away from Harpreet’s flat. Police are scanning the call records of the two men for leads.
