“Lucknow: STF arrests gang members Salman & Arshad while trying to rob a jeweller, the duo confesses to stabbing Mansi Yadav to death”, Opindia, September 22, 2023:
“A team of the Special Task Force arrested two active members of a gang run by jailed serial killer brothers Salim, Rustam and Sohrab on 21 September. The accused have been identified as Salman alias Aftab Malik of Khadra and Mohammed Arshad Siddiqui of Madeyganj. They also admitted to stabbing Mansi Yadav to death and dumping her body in the river during interrogation. She was killed on 4 September.
They were planning to loot a jeweller in the area and were apprehended following a tip-off. Authorities received information that they were in the Gudamba neighbourhood of Lucknow to rob a bullion dealer located on Kursi Road near Scorpio Club. The cops acted swiftly and captured them as well as seized two country-made pistols each of a different bore, five live cartridges, two mobile phones, and a car from them.
The two confessed to the kidnapping and murder of a young woman named Mansi Yadav who was the daughter of a farmer and revealed that her body was thrown in the Ghaghra River on Bahraich Road. Mohammed Arshad Siddiqui alleged that the victim had an affair with his married brother. Furthermore, neither of them relented and was adamant about tying the knot despite repeated attempts by the family to make the couple understand….”
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