Both Shahzad Ahmad and Ariz Khan were later declared proclaimed offenders.
Ahmad was arrested from Lucknow in 2010 and Ariz was arrested from India-Nepal border on February 14 in 2018.
Ariz did his schooling from Azamgarh, police said.
He has been involved in other cases in Delhi as well.
However, trial in those cases is still pending.
As per prosecution evidence, Ariz was pursuing B.Tech in IT from a college in Mujaffarnagar where he had taken admission in 2005.
As per a statement of his uncle in the court, he later left the course and lastly resided with him in the year 2008 for further studies.
According to the police, during police custody remand on February 28, 2018, accused Ariz led the police party to Nehar Bridge of upper Ganga canal, Barotta village situated at Aligarh to Ramghat Road approximately 10-15 kms from Aligarh and from there he further led the police party to right side of kacha passage before Nehar and after crossing 100-150 meters pointed out the place where he had thrown weapon of offence in the canal. On March 4, 2018, he while being in police custody remand pointed out the place of occurrence from outside i.e. Flat No. 108, L-18,Batla House, Jamia Nagar, New Delhi. As per police, it was also revealed during investigation that Ariz along with his other associates was using mobile phone number belonging to Md. Atif Ameen till September 19, 2008 while they were staying at the flat in Batla house.
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