Hotelier who shot and killed govt official in Kasauli nabbed from Vrindavan

After shocking daylight murder of an officer in Himachal Pradesh’s Kasauli, the police has finally managed to arrest the accused hotelier from Uttar Pradesh’s Mathura district.

Vijay Singh, the hotel owner accused of killing Assistant Town and Country planner in Kasauli, was nabbed in a joint operation by the Delhi Police and the Himachal Police on Thursday. The police tracked him down to Vrindavan, where he was seen outside Banke Bihari Temple.

Singh had shot dead Shail Bala during a drive to seal unauthorised guests houses and hotels as per the directives issued by the Supreme Court.

According to reports, Singh told the cops that he had planned to kill the officer after she refused to accept the bribe in order to stop the sealing drive. Sources say Vijay Singh said he pleaded with Shail  Bala, the assistant town planner of Kasauli, to spare his building but “she refused to settle (accept hush money)” and “was behaving like an ideal officer”.

He also resented that his mother “touched the officer’s feet” and begged, but she didn’t budge saying she had orders from the Supreme Court. After killing the officer, Vijay Singh ran away and hid in the jungle for hours, the police say. He then returned home at night, picked up his ATM and Aadhaar cards and headed to Delhi by bus.
After a two-day hunt, the police found him in a temple at Mathura in Uttar Pradesh. To throw cops off his trail, he had shaved his moustache and trimmed his hair. He also changed locations frequently and used strangers’ phones for calls.