A cab driver was allegedly killed by two passengers, including a woman, and his body dumped in a drain in Greater Noida last week. The victim has been identified as Ram Govind – a missing diary on whom was filed on January 29, 2019, police said.
The two accused have been identified as Farhat Ali and Seema Sharma, also known as Aslam Khatoon, both of whom have been arrested from Loni, Ghaziabad. The duo booked the cab from Gurgaon to Ghaziabad around 1 am on January 29. After completing the ride, the couple offered Govind tea which was sedated. Once Govind was unconscious, the accused strangled him till his death using a rope, a statement issued by the police said.
After ensuring that the victim was dead, the couple left behind the body in the room and drove his car to Moradabad and hid it in the bushes outside a temple. They returned the next day and disintegrated the body using cutters and razors, wrapped the pieces in three different bags and disposed of them in a drain near Gaur City in Greater Noida (West). The police have recovered the Hyundai Excent car — which used as a cab on Ola and Uber — and the robbed mobile phones of the deceased. The weapons used to disintegrate the body have also been recovered, police informed.
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The murderers were tracked down after the driver’s mobile phone was recovered using electronic surveillance. The GPS device of the car was disabled by the accused. While inspecting the CCTV footage, the police saw the suspects roaming around the car – after which they managed to arrest them on Sunday.
The accused have been sent to police remand for five days. Among other recoveries made by the police is a Honda Activa used to dispose of the body parts. Police claim that the accused have confessed to the crime during the course of the investigation and further interrogation is underway to unearth the whole conspiracy.
Accused Farhat hails from Amroha and used to live in Moradabad where he initially began working at a photo studio. Later, he started practicing as a fake doctor and wanted to set up his own clinic. For the past few days, he was out of work and under debt. Seema alias Asseman Khatoon is a 30-year married woman who lives on rent in Dundahera area of Ghaziabad. She has two children.