Click to play videoSrinagar: The murder of 20-year-old Asrar Mushtaq that provoked street rage in Srinagar, has been solved with police claiming that a friend-turned-spurned-lover is behind the crime.
Twenty-year-old Imran and his friend Asim are accused of killing their friend Asrar after the latter reportedly fell for Imran's girlfriend. Asrar reportedly met the girl, who is based in Delhi, through a social networking site.
Jilted by her an angry Imran allegedly bludgeoned Asrar to death, before dumping his body at a graveyard in Rainawari.
"The accused confessed to his crime during interrogation. He used a rod used for body building and hit the victim on his head," said A Mujtaba, SSP Srinagar.
Jammu and Kashmir Police are now planning to send a team to Delhi to get the statement of the girl in question.
Violence had broken out in Srinagar last week after Asrar's body was found in a decomposed state with locals alleging then that he may have been picked up by police and killed…
But with the case now solved, Asrar's family is appealing for peace.
"We are happy with the investigations. I request people not to take law onto their hands,'' Asrar's father Mushtaq Ahmad said.
Now that the blind murder case has been solved, it has not only given a sense of closure to the victim family but also eased some pressure on Chief Minister Omar Abdullah who was really getting bothered by almost daily doze of bad news.
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