Within hours of releasing his picture all public in the country now demanding the arrest of the culprit, a team of the cop in Srinagar picked up the fourth suspect in senior journalist Shujaat Bukhari’s murder case.
Earlier on Friday, police released the video of a bearded man who was probably trying to help the injured in Bukhari’s car after militants fired a volley of automatic gunfire at the inhabitant.
This man was reportedly picking up a pistol from the mishap spot and post that the goons escaped.
The Police sources said this fourth suspect was perhaps from the group of those assassins. “He has been arrested and his interrogation is going on,” a source said.
On the Late Thursday night, police had issued two photographs of three-motorcycle borne which suspect that those were taken from the CCTV footage. Though, their faces were not visible anyway.
While the driver was wearing a helmet, one of the pillion riders was seen wearing a face mask in order to conceal his identity. The face of the third assailant, sitting in the middle, was not covered properly and he was leaning towards the other side so as not to be captured on the CCTV.
“In connection with (Thursday’s) terror attack at the Srinagar’s Press enclave, police request general public to identify the suspects for the purpose of the investigation,” a police spokesman said.
The local police asked the local public to pass the information about the identity of the killers, the spokesman said the name of the person providing any clue or information regarding the suspects should be kept under confidential.
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