Gaya: Son of absconding Janata Dal (United) MLC Manorama Devi, Rakesh Ranjan alias Rocky Yadav has confessed before police that he killed class 12 student Aditya Sachdev in a fit of road rage last week in Gaya.
“In his statement, Rocky Yadav admitted committing the crime. I assure you that we will soon arrest others involved in the case. The investigation will reveal about his whereabouts and these things would be addressed later on,” Gaya Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Garima Malik said.
However, Rocky had earlier claimed that he had never fired any shots, nor had he gone into hiding.
Rocky was arrested from his father's mixer plant in Gaya district on Monday. He is accused of killing 19-year-old Aditya Sachdeva for overtaking his Land Rover near Gaya.
Also the Primary Forensic Science Laboratory(FSL) test report has revealed that the bullet was fired from Rocky Yadav's Beretta pistol.
Rocky's father, known in the area for his muscle and money power, and Manorama Devi's bodyguard Rajesh Kumar were arrested on last Sunday for allegedly helping him escape.
The police had recovered a Beretta pistol which was used in the crime by the MLC’s son. And in the latest, the Delhi police revealed that a gun license was issued to Yadav on ground of threat from elements in left-wing extremism-affected areas. This information was revealed by the police after Bihar Deputy CM Tejaswi Yadav demanded to know how licence for his pistol without proper verification in Delhi, and called for a thorough probe into the matter.
The murder of Aditya Sachdeva had triggered protests and the state government faced criticism from the opposition for the alleged law and order break down.
Chief Minister Nitish Kumar too had strongly condemned the incident and asserted that nobody could escape from the "long arms of law", opposition BJP claimed that "jungle raj" had returned to the state. The victim's mother demanded that a speedy trial be carried out in the case.
Meanwhile, the gun licences issued to the family of Rocky Yadav were suspended on Friday as officials in Delhi and Gaya moved towards their cancellation. Rocky’s mother Manorama Devi has three firearms licences, one each for a revolver, rifle and double barren gun. His father Bindi Yadav was issued a rifle license in 1991 whereas Rocky himself has a pistol licence from Delhi, issued in 2013.
