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IAF corporal death: Main accused Sambia Sohrab arrested

| | Jan 17, 2016, at 05:38 am
Kolkata, Jan 16 (IBNS): Four days after an AIF corporal was killed after being hit by a speeding Audi car during rehearsal for R-Day parade in Kolkata's Red Road, the Anti Rowdy Squad of Kolkata Police on Saturday night arrested former RJD MLA and presently TMC leader Md. Sohrab's younger son Sambia Sohrab, who was reportedly driving the killer Audi Q-7 car, in connection with the case.

He has been booked under IPC sections 302 (Murder) and 120-B (Criminal Conspiracy), a senior official of Kolkata Police claimed.

According to police sources, acting on a tip off and taking help of technologies, police arrested main accused Sambia Sohrab from south Kolkata at around 11:15 pm. on Saturday and he has been taken to Kolkata Police headquarters Lalbazar.

He is being interrogated.

Meanwhile, another source of Kolkata Police claimed that Sambia Sohrab reached Lalbazar and surrendered himself to the police around 9:30 pm.

An Audi Q-7 car, which was registered in the name of a company- Mussadi Business Pvt Ltd- owned by former RJD MLA and presently TMC leader Md. Sohrab's elder son Ambia Sohrab, allegedly broke police barricades at Red Road and hit Airman Abhimanyu Gaud on Wednesday early morning. The airman, a 21-year-old Air Force drill instructor was killed.

Meanwhile, denying Trinamool Congress (TMC)'s involvement into the incident, TMC Rajya Sabha MP and party's National spokesperson Derek O'Brien on Saturday said, "Md. Sohrab was Left Front government's MLA in 2006 and he is not a TMC leader. He is a minor political activist. The devil, who was reportedly driving the car, has no connection with the TMC."

(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha)

 

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