5 mths on, 4 held for murder

Jammu: Around five months after the death of a 45-year-old man in a remote village of Jammu and Kashmir’s Reasi district, four people have been arrested in the case, police said on Sunday.
Mohd Rafiq was found dead outside Jia Baggo Dass village in the district’s Chasana area on Dec 9, a police spokesperson said, adding that the case was solved with the arrest of the victim’s neighbours Nazir Ahmed Ruslla, Shabir Ahmed, Nazir Ahmed, and Farooq Ahmed.The officials said the accused had attacked Rafiq for allegedly having an illicit relation with the wife of one of the accused. After killing him, the accused dumped the body along a road, which is around 500 metre from the crime scene, to mislead the police, the officials added. PTI