A joint team of the Uttar Pradesh Police and the UP Special Task Force (STF), with help from the Nagpur Police, traced the three to a flat on Wardha Road, where they were allegedly preparing to leave the city. New Delhi: An 11-day search for Shradha Dubey, the main accused in the death of Lucknow cafe owner Shiva Sharma, ended in Nagpur on Tuesday (October 20), with the arrest of Dubey, her sister Rashmi Dubey and their driver Danish.
He had been living with Dubey at the flat. His death was initially described as a suicide, but his mother, Ranjana Sharma, later filed a murder complaint, alleging that her son had marks of torture on his body. The police registered a murder case against Dubey, her sister and driver Tanveer Ali, also known as Danish, and two other people. They are being brought to Lucknow for further investigation. The police investigation is examining the circumstances of the fall and the events in the flat before Sharma’s death. The three were eventually traced to a flat on Wardha Road. Police teams reached the location with assistance from the Nagpur Police and arrested them before they could leave the city.
Sharma, 28, died on October 9 after falling from the balcony of a fourth-floor flat at Awadh Green Apartments in Lucknow’s Hazratganj area. A reward of Rs 50,000 each was announced for information leading to the arrest of the three accused who had gone missing after the case was registered. The police said the three were arrested in Nagpur at around 3.30 pm on Tuesday.
She also said that CCTV footage would establish what had happened and insisted that she was not absconding and wanted to appear before the police.
