The Central Bureau of Investigation sleuths have arrested another person in the Satyendra Dubey murder case whom they claimed pulled the trigger on the NHAI employee.
Sarwan Paswan was picked up by the agency sleuths from Patna based on interrogation report of four other accused persons arrested by the CBI earlier in connection with the killing of Dubey in Gaya district of Bihar last year, CBI sources said in Delhi on Monday.
The sources claimed that Sarwan had allegedly pulled the trigger on November 27, 2003 killing Dubey while he was on his way back from the railway station.
Sarwan was remanded to CBI custody till June 19 by the duty magistrate last evening, the sources said.
The search for the weapon used to execute the killing and also Dubey's briefcase which was snatched away from him were on, they said.
The CBI had conducted polygraphic test on Babloo Mehtar, Uday Mallah, Mantoo Paswan and Tutoo Paswan here yesterday and the accused would be taken to Patna where they would "confront" Paswan.
The murder of Dubey, project officer of National Highway Authority of India, saw an angry outburst from public because of his letter to the Prime Minister's Office which alleged corruption in the NHAI Golden Quadilateral Project in Bihar.
The CBI registered a case against unknown persons under 120-B (criminal conspiracy) and 302 (murder) of IPC and various provisions under Arms Act on December 14, 2003 after his murder was seen as a conspiracy of builder-mafia entrusted with work of National Highway in Bihar.
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