CBI to probe death of Nido

One more arrested; four charged with murder

NEW DELHI, February 11 (PTI): The home ministry on Tuesday ordered a CBI probe into the death of Arunachal Pradesh youth Nido Tania. Earlier on Tuesday, the Delhi Police told a court here that they have slapped the charge of murder against the four persons, one of whom was arrested this morning, in connection with the death of Nido.

The police informed metropolitan magistrate Pawan Kumar that they booked accused Farman, Sunder, Pawan and Sunny Uppal under section 302 (murder) of IPC after the postmortem report revealed that Nido Tania died due to injuries to his head and face caused by a blunt object. Thereafter, the police moved an application for their fresh custody and quiz them for some time after the court’s permission. The accused were once again produced before the magistrate, who remanded the four to judicial custody till February 25, after the police did not seek their custodial interrogation.

Sunny was arrested this morning while Farman, Sunder and Pawan were arrested on February 4 and produced before the court which had remanded them to judicial custody. Initially, the police had arrested the accused under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (SC/ST)(Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989.



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