Sunny Rawat, arrested in connection with the Mehar Bhargava murder, confessed before the media to having fired the fatal shot at her in a fit of rage. ‘Yes, I fired the shot,' Rawat told reporters here after which he was produced before a local court as the main suspect. Rawat, who was presented by police at a news conference, claimed Mehar threatened him and his accomplices with dire consequences and also abused him following which he shot her in a fit of rage. ‘She (Mehar) used filthy language which I could not bear and fired at her,' he said.
He alleged that it was Pramod Singh who passed lewd remarks about Mehar's daughter-in-law near the stairs of their house on February 28 after which she scolded Singh and threatened to call the police.The family driver, Ganga Prasad, identified Rawat as the one who had fired the fatal shot after Rawat and another youth Sanjay Menon were arrested.The four men, identified as Sachin Pahadi, Pramod Singh, Amit Singh and Jaiprakash came down from K D Singh's flat, where they had been drinking the previous night. The accused tried to flee when Meher threatened to call the police. When Meher's driver chased them, Sachin Pachadi shot at her. Two of the accused, Sachin and Amit, have a criminal history, with Sachin already having two murder charges against him. The reward on Sachin has been increased from Rs 2,500 to Rs 5,000, according to Hazratganj inspector D K Rai. Amit has cases lodged against him at Mughalsarai police station in Chandauli district. While Jaiprakash and Pramod have been arrested, Amit and Sachin are still missing.
Meher Bhargava was the 50-year old wife of senior Congress leader Luv Bhargava. A little more than an month after she was shot, barely metres from the Lucknow police superintendent's office, she succumbed to injuries and died at 6.15 pm on March 25th at the Apollo Hospital where she was admitted.
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