RSS worker Himmat Patidar, 36, who tried to fake his death by killing HIS farm help and passing off the body as his own, was arrested by Ratlam Police from a temple Dharamshala in Rajasthan’s Pratapgarh district late on Wednesday.
Pratapgarh: RSS worker Himmat Patidar, 36, who tried to fake his death by killing a farm help and passing off the body as his own, was arrested by Ratlam Police from a temple Dharamshala in Rajasthan’s Pratapgarh district late on Wednesday, a report by Indian Express said.
The report added that he boarded a bus and later took a train to Indore. From there he took a bus to Ujjain. Then he reached a temple in Pratapgarh where he took a dharmashala room on rent for Rs. 10.
“Himmat told the police that he owed Rs. 26 lakh to some people. He thought he would not have to return it and his family will get Rs 20 lakh insurance money if he faked his death. He also took a loan of Rs 50,000 from a trader a day before the murder. The police recovered Rs 48,715 from him, a copy of Hanuman Chalisa and a chit carrying phone numbers of his family members,” the report said.
Himmat Patidar, who is believed to be a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh activist from Ratlam, allegedly killed his farm labourer Madan Malviya last week and burned his face to pass off the body as his own in order to mislead the police and claim the insurance money totalling Rs 20 lakh to repay his debts.
Ratlam Additional Superintendent of Police Pradip Sharma said Patidar had initially tried to sever Malviya’s head. When he could not, Patidar burned Malviya’s face and planted his mobile phone, Aadhaar card, and a diary near Malviya’s body, Sharma said.
Police have established the identity of the deceased Malviya through DNA test, Ratlam Superintendent of Police Gaurav Tiwari told reporters in a press conference.
BJP had raised a huge stink over an RSS worker’s murder in Madhya Pradesh and pointed fingers at the new Congress government in power, accusing them of deteriorating law and order in the state.
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