After the furore over RTI activist Amit Jethwa's murder, it seems the city police have finally identified the persons behind the crime.
After the furore over RTI activist Amit Jethwa's murder, it seems the city police have finally identified the persons behind the crime. However, for fear that the killers may go into hiding, the police are not revealing the names of the killers yet.
"Jethwa's murder was a contract killing and the one who killed him and escaped from the spot have been identified. We are in the middle of investigations to find out the people who gave the contract," a cop told DNA.
The city police have not revealed the names of the accused but have gathered substantial evidence against the killers. "The police have now zeroed in on the killers, through the evidence gathered so far," a source testified to DNA.
Cops in the know, on the condition of anonymity, told DNA that the assailants have been identified as contract killers. The cops have gathered evidences of the financial transactions through which the killers were paid to kill Jethwa.
Officials further said that the killers are absconding and the cops fear that the people behind the attack might get the killers eliminated. The officials hence, did not divulge the names of the killers, for fear that they may go into hiding.
Police sources said that the killers seem to have followed the same modus operandi that has been observed in several similar crimes. In Jethwa's case, the killers came on a motorbike at night and shot him from very close, giving him very less time to react.
However, Jethwa managed to hold on to the killers' bike, due to which the assailants had to struggle to escape. Police officials claim that the arrest of the assailants may help detect several other murder cases where the victims were killed in a similar manner.
Jethwa was killed in firing by two people who came on a motorbike on July 20. The murder happened in the evening between 8:30 and 8:45 in front of the Gujarat high court. His family, in their statement to the police, has alleged that he was killed by the BJP leaders involved in illegal mining near Porbandar.
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