Delhi cops make first 'breakthrough'; locate lost mobile
Delhi cops make first 'breakthrough'; locate lost mobile
The Delhi police are claiming it as the 'first breakthrough' in the Aarushi murder case while the Central Bureau of Investigation is tight-lipped.
The Nokia N-72 mobile phone, which reportedly belongs to the Noida teenager, has been traced and recovered by the Crime Branch officials from Bulandshahr in Uttar Pradesh.
Since February 2009, a prepaid mobile connection number 9910520630 had been inserted into the cherry-coloured phone. The phone was under surveillance ever since it went on May 18 after Aarushi's brutal murder on May 16.
The cellphone was being used by one Ram Chander Valmiki, a resident of Khurja. Valmiki is a fourth grade employee at the local branch of Punjab National Bank.
According to sources, Ram was arrested on Sunday. He told the police that he had received the cellphone from his sister who works as a house maid at Jalvayu Vihar, Noida, the colony where Aarushi lived.
On the trail of the phone, the police found that a lot of calls were made to certain people in Noida in the last seven months. The police interrogated those who were contacted and finally the source was traced to Valmiki in Khurja, Bulandshahr.
"Ram revealed his sister had found the cellphone near Jalvayu Vihar in Noida. She had kept the cellphone in her custody for several months before passing it on to him in February," said a police official, requesting anonymity.
"The phone has been handed over to the CBI which is investigating the case," Delhi Police spokesperson Rajan Bhagat said, refusing to divulge any further details.
