Junaid Khan's killer held in Maharashtra

The Haryana Railway Police on Saturday nabbed the main accused who stabbed 16-year-old Junaid Khan to death near Ballabhgarh on June 22 from Maharashtra's Dhule. The accused has been identified as Naresh Rakh.

According to sources, Rakh was looking for employment in Dhule's Sakri. The source also said Rakh decided to settle in a remote part of the state to escape arrest. After identifying the accused, police secretly tracked his mobile phone. 

Also, a Government Railway Police (GRP) team was hot on his trail for a week before finally nabbing him.

Police said Rakh would not remain in the same location for long after a reward of Rs 2 lakh was announced for anyone who would provide credible information about him. The police also released a sketch of the accused based on Junaid's brother's account was flashed by the police.

Sources also said that the police also brought a relative of the accused to Sakri, who then helped them zero in on Rakh, said a source.

The police said Rakh confessed to stabbing Junaid during interrogation.

"We provided local assistance to the Haryana police team to detain the main accused in the lynching case. We have handed him (Rakh) over to the Haryana police after making a note of the incident in our diary," said Ramkumar, Superintendent of Police, Dhule

The police had earlier arrested five persons, including a Delhi government employee, in connection with the killing of Junaid.