GHAZIABAD: A 12-year-old boy and his two accomplices were apprehended on Saturday for allegedly robbing and killing a couple in the Tronica City area last month.Police said the boy masterminded the robbery to steal cash which he learnt the couple – Ibrahim Khan (60) and his 55-year-old wife Hajra – had recently got and enlisted the help of three youths for the job, but they ended up killing the couple in the early hours of November 22. The minor used to sell scrap to Khan. A few days after the crime, he went back to the house and cried, cops said. The minor and two others – Mukesh (19) and Shubham (18) were apprehended.Boy, 3 aides throttled woman, then killed her husband, who was asleepA 12-year-old boy and his two accomplices were apprehended on Saturday for allegedly robbing and killing a couple in Tronica City after an initial probe suggested the accused were known to the couple who lived in Church Colony with their daughter Rihana (34) and her seven children.DCP (rural) Iraj Raja said, “During interrogation, the three told us that they knocked on the couple’s door around 2am on November 22 on the pretext of selling scrap. As soon as Hajra opened the door and stepped out, Mukesh and Shubham strangled her.”Wasting no time, the other two – the 12-year-old and Sandeep, who is currently absconding – went inside and suffocated Khan, who was asleep, the DCP said.The accused subsequently fled with around Rs 54,000, a silver chain and a mobile phone from the house. It was Rihana who found the bodies of her parents lying in the house – Khan in the bed and Hajra near the washroom.Puzzled that no one in the family heard anything in the night, Raja said, “Investigators focused on people known to the couple after lodging an FIR for murder and eventually made the breakthrough.”ACP (Loni) Rajnish Kumar Upadhyay told TOI after the crime, “two of the four accused went to their hometown in Bihar and stayed there for sometime”.Sources claimed that the accused were planning to purchase weapons from the loot money and enter the world of crime.
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