Dehradun, March 29 The Uttarakhand Police has announced a reward of ₹25,000 for information leading to the arrest of seven individuals accused in the death of an engineering student in Dehradun's Premnagar area, police said.
According to the police, all the accused are on the run and hail from Bihar. The court has also issued arrest warrants against them.
On the night of March 23, Divyanshu Jatrana, 22, a native of Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh, was injured in a clash stemming from a turf war between two groups studying at a private university here, police said.
Jatrana was taken to a hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries, police said.
Dehradun Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Pramendra Singh Dobal has announced a reward of ₹25,000 each for information leading to the arrest of all the wanted accused.
Based on the complaint filed by Jatrana's family, the police have registered a case.
The police have arrested four accused, three on March 24 and another on March 26, and sent them to jail, the police said.
Based on the information obtained from the arrested suspects and CCTV footage, the names of seven individuals have surfaced.
The accused have been identified as -- Ritik Raj (East Champaran), Prahlad Raj (Nawada), Ankur (Gopalpur) -- while Shantanu Kumar, Ujjwal Singh, Aditya Raj, and Vineet Raj are all residents of Patna, police said.
The police are conducting continuous raids at their suspected hideouts in an effort to apprehend them.