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Basharat Peer in New Delhi
All three accomplices of Sher Singh Rana, prime accused in the Phoolan Devi murder case, were remanded to police custody till August 14 by Metropolitan Magistrate M C Gupta on Tuesday afternoon.
Narrating the sequence of events, the public prosecutor told the court that Rajbir, Ravinder and Shekhar had met Rana in Roorkee before the crime. After the murder, they went to the Inter-State Bus Terminal and thence to Ghaziabad and Rishikesh before they were arrested in Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh, on Monday afternoon.
Seeking their custody, he argued that the police were still to collect information about all the people they had met in between, where they had stayed and who had provided the logistical support for the criminal act.
Ghanshyam Singh, counsel for the accused, petitioned the magistrate to send them to judicial custody, but Gupta did not entertain his request.
Meanwhile, the motive for the crime continues to fox the police. A senior officer handling the case told rediff.com that the accused continue to deny any political involvement.
"It seems Rana's Thakur theory might be the motive," he said. "Plus the fact that Rana is a bit of a psycho. He might have done it just because he wants to be in the limelight and felt the whole Rajput community would be with him after this."
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