2 people involved in Yakutpura-firing , arrested under 36 hours of the incident

The two unidentified persons who had fired at the woman in Yakutpura in broad daylight have been nabbed from Ahmedabad under 36 hours. The two accused are a 50-year-old Moin Abdulrehman Sheikh who stays in Tandalja and a 34-year-old Amjadshah Adamshah Diwan, who stays in Yakutpura, but is originally from Indore, Madhya Pradesh.

They have been booked under the IPC section of 114, 379,406, 420, 465, 467, 468,471 amongst other sections.

The police investigation has revealed that the young brother (Moin) of the husband planned to kill his sister-in-law (Amina) with the help of his friend in a property dispute.

The accused had site recced the area for a few days in an auto-rickshaw and had devised a plan to kill her. On Tuesday afternoon i.e, 8th September, the accused arrived at the house under the pretext of giving an invitation card and Moin fired a round of bullet at the woman, Amina Sheikh, who was hit on the right side of her chest. He was about to fire a second round of bullet, but he fled from the spot.
The accused later ran away to Tandalja. They changed their clothes, cleaned the moped, changed the number plate, and put the pistol and clothes worn during the act in separate plastic bags and threw it in the Tandalja Lake. He hid the pistol bag in his first mother-in-law’s house. Moin left the moped near a complex in Gotri and reached Amitnagar Circle in a rickshaw with his wife Sagupta Khatoon and Associate Amzadshah and from there they fled to Ahmedabad.

Meanwhile, when the incident was reported, the Crime Branch Team began an investigation based on the CCTV and the husband Amina, Naeem Sheikh raised suspicions over his brother Moin Sheikh as the attacker. In nearly 36 hours of investigation, the team arrested Moin from Juhapura Ahmedabad and his friend Amzadshah from Relief hotel near Lal Darwaza. The team also seized the countrymade pistol, mobiles, two-wheeler, and other items from them.