Shocking details emerged in the murder case of Kanpur businessman Vineet Minocha on Thursday after police probe found that it was actually the trader’s son who plotted the killing.
Subrat had actually allegedly planned for his father’s death to appear accidental. On the day of the murder, the plan changed last-minute after Vineet spotted the two hitmen hiding in his apartment and raised alarm. The altercation led to Vishal stabbing Vineet to death instead. One day later, police arrested Vineet’s daughter-in-law and Subrat’s wife Shalu Manocha, apart from the alleged contract killers Vishal and Rajkishore.
The breakthrough came 19 days after the murder and during the questioning of Subrat, Shalu and one of the hitmen he hired for his father’s killing, as stated in an earlier HT report. Sixty-year-old Vineet, who ran a pharmaceutical firm on Kanpur’s Birhana Road with his son, was stabbed to death at his Ratan Orbit apartment in Kalyanpur in Kanpur on September 5. Vineet Minocha was murdered on September 5. In the past, she also helped him repay his debts by arranging ₹ 14 lakh from her father.
Minocha’s son Subrat plotted the murder over a span of three months and also framed his wife Shalu for it, according to police officials. Subrat allegedly conspired to kill his father fearing that the pharma trader who reportedly had relationships with several women, might end up transferring his property to some other woman, said police. Apart from occasional family disagreements, Shalu and Subrat shared a good relationship, police said.
