Kanpur man, in burqa, kills friend for gold chain. His masculine walk exposes him
On the night of May 31, during the IPL final, Mohit executed his plan at Prakash's coaching institute. Knowing his friend was staying overnight to watch the match, Mohit arrived in a burqa and women's footwear to conceal his identity.
An 18-year-old friendship ended in murder when computer coaching owner Prakash Chandra Gupta was killed by his best friend, Mohit Dwivedi, for a gold chain worth Rs 5 lakh. While Dwivedi meticulously planned the murder using YouTube tutorials and disguised himself in a burqa, his unnatural walking style in CCTV footage ultimately exposed him to the police.
On the night of May 31, during the IPL final, Mohit executed his plan at Prakash's coaching institute. Knowing his friend was staying overnight to watch the match, Mohit arrived in a burqa and women's footwear to conceal his identity.
Inside the room, a violent scuffle broke out as Mohit attempted to snatch the heavy gold chain from an intoxicated Prakash. During the struggle, Prakash was aggressively shoved, causing him to fall heavily onto the floor and sustain fatal head injuries. Mohit then cold-bloodedly fled the scene with the chain and a gold bracelet, leaving his friend to bleed to death.
The next morning, family members discovered Prakash's body in a pool of blood. While initial police assessments mistook the scene for an accidental fall caused by a medical emergency, the missing jewellery triggered a full homicide investigation.
After multiple police ranks failed to find leads, senior cop from Kanpur, Raghubir Lal, reviewed the local surveillance footage. He spotted the burqa-clad figure and instantly grew suspicious of the suspect's masculine gait.
By tracking the suspect across 100 CCTV cameras, investigators traced the burqa-clad figure back to a car where Mohit had changed into the disguise, leading to his swift arrest. Highly confident that his plan was foolproof, Mohit had spent the morning after the murder mingling with the victim's grieving family and casually chatting with investigators at the crime scene.
He then calmly went on to take a competitive teaching exam and travelled to Lucknow the following day.
The victim's family remains shattered by the ultimate betrayal. "We never expected Mohit to do this," said Prakash's brother, Vikas. "He destroyed an 18-year-old friendship out of pure greed. He was my only brother; who can we ever trust now?"