Police on March 21 arrested Mohd Javed, brother of Mohd Sajid who allegedly killed the two minor brothers in Budaun on March 19.
The postmortem report of the slain children has revealed that the assailant stabbed the elder brother 13 times and his sibling 11 times, officials said, adding injury marks have been found on the neck, chest and other parts of bodies of the two children.
Javed, who had been absconding since the murders in Baba Colony on Tuesday, surrendered at Satellite police outpost of Baradari police station in neighbouring Bareilly district, Budaun Senior Superintendent of Police Alok Priyadarshi said.
“Javed, the brother of main accused Sajid, was arrested by a police team in nearby Bareilly district. He is being brought to Budaun for further questioning,” the SSP said.
A video clip that surfaced online purportedly showed Javed pleading with a group of people confronting him to take him to the police.
In the video, Javed says that he fled to Delhi after the incident and returned to Bareilly to surrender before the police. The video was apparently shot at an autorickshaw stand close to the police post.
“I have nothing to do with the incident. He (Sajid) was my elder brother. He did that but I have nothing to do with the incident,” Javed is heard saying in the video.
Bareilly SSP Dhule Sushil Chandrabhan told PTI that the district police handed over Javed to the Budaun police after completing formalities.
Sajid, a barber allegedly slit the throats of two brothers, aged 13 years and six years, before being killed in a police encounter.
The double murder led to communal tensions in the area, as a mob gutted shops belonging to the Muslim community.
Hours after the murder on March 19 evening, the accused Sajid (22) was gunned down in an encounter with the police.
Sajid, who had recently opened a barber shop in the locality, allegedly attacked three brothers — Ayush, 12, Ahaan alias Honey, 8, and Yuvraj, 10, with a knife. Ayush and Ahaan died in the attack, while Yuvraj was rushed to a hospital with grievous wounds.
The boys' father, who is a private contractor, was out of the district at the time of the incident.
According to the boys’ mother, two men had come to their house. Sajid was upstairs when the incident happened while his brother was waiting outside, she said.
(with inputs from PTI)
