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IPS officer places UP Police in the dock over whodunnit

Suspicious: The family is being kept away from the investigation. The girls' father says the police has deleted all data from her mobile before returning it to them

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A senior IPS officer has virtually placed the UP Police in the dock by questioning its theory about the recent murder of a young Law student whose body was horribly dismembered by the alleged killer, a close friend of the girl according to the police.

Additional DG (Civil Defence) Amitabh Thakur riddled the police theory with umpteen holes, almost making it sound ridiculous, after visiting the alleged crime spot and meeting the relatives of the deceased as well as of the accused, along with his wife and social activist Nutan Thakur.

"The police theory seems very shaky even at a cursory glance," he told dna, pointing out several loopholes. He would be sending his report to the DGP AK Jain who had personally unraveled the police theory before the media on Sunday.

Jain had told reporters that the girl Gauri Srivastava had been killed by her friend Himanshu Prajapati in a fit of anger because of her alleged friendship with other boys. The DGP said he later cut her body into six pieces with a carpenter's saw, and then threw the parts in three sacks at different places with the help of his friend Anuj. Both the accused admitted their crime before the media.

"It's impossible for one person to commit this horrific crime," says Nutan, adding that the girl's family had rejected the police story completely. There are countless questions which remain unanswered, she said. "All this seems to be a design to protect the real killers who must obviously be highly connected," she added.

Interestingly, Zee Sangam channel on Tuesday aired an exclusive story about the saw, allegedly used to dismember the body, having been bought by two cops the very day the DGP patted his own back by "unraveling" the case, a week after the murder.

On Wednesday, the police picked up the shopkeeper Pankaj Chawla from his shop. His brother Ravi said the police had been trying to pressure them to confirm the police theory. However, he told reporters the brothers had never seen either of the accused.

Amitabh Thakur told dna that Gauri's father told him that the police had deleted all data from and changed the SD card of Gauri's mobile before returning it to them. Also, the family is being kept away from the investigation completely, he said. The parents have also said that the clothes shown to them as Gauri's were not hers.

Buffeted by the media reports on the case, an official spokesman told reporters that the investigation "is still on" and if complicity of any others is revealed, "appropriate action would be taken". However, it doesn't look as if this whodunit would be condemned to oblivion any time soon.

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