The police are yet to trace the whereabouts of the key suspect in the murder of engineer Anjali Rathour, who was shot in the basement on her building in Noida’s Sector 62 on Wednesday.
Raids have been conducted at the house of the suspect, Ashvini Yadav, in Etawah in Uttar Pradesh and also at his temporary residence in Lajpat Nagar, but there is no information on him yet. His cell phone is also switched off his since the murder, said a senior police officer.
A police team was despatched to Etawah on Wednesday to nab him.
‘Enough evidence’
“The deceased’s family has accused him of murder and all evidence is going against him. There is sufficient evidence to consider him a key suspect, but we cannot say anything till he is arrested and questioned,” the officer said.
Mobile switched off
“The suspect’s mobile phone has not been switched on since the incident. We are working on the case with the help of manual and electronic surveillance. We hope to arrest him soon. We have some information that cannot be disclosed to the media at the moment,” the officer added.
Twenty-three-year-old Rathour was shot dead by an unidentified man at Shatabdi Rail Vihar residential society in Noida on Wednesday morning. The deceased was working as a trainee engineer with a mobile manufacturing company in Sector 62.
