A 27-year-old girl was murdered on Friday in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district allegedly by a person whom she met on social media 5 months in the past, police mentioned including that the accused was arrested inside hours.
Police mentioned the accused has confessed to the crime throughout interrogation (Representational picture)
Police mentioned that on Friday the girl’s husband, who works in a non-public agency, had known as her over telephone from his workplace a number of occasions. There was, nevertheless, no response. When he returned house within the night, he discovered her lifeless within the flat. The sufferer Avishikta Dey was discovered strangulated.
“The accused Kaushik Saha, 28, has been arrested from Barrackpore in North 24 Parganas district. He has confessed to the crime during interrogation,” mentioned Aishwariya Sagar, deputy commissioner of police (airport division) of Bidhannagar metropolis police.
“The husband informed us that even though they had been married for the past seven years and have a three-year-old son, problems cropped up between the couple recently over the wife’s relation with Saha,” mentioned an officer.
Police scanned via footages of CCTVv cameras put in within the locality and checked the cellular tower location of Saha.
“During interrogation Saha claimed that he got married to Dey in a temple, but the latter was trying to snap the ties. Hence, he murdered her. He then left the flat after locking it with Dey’s keys,” mentioned an officer.
In one other case, through which a girl’s severed head was discovered from a rubbish vat in a residential locality in south Kolkata on Friday, police have arrested the girl’s brother-in-law. Police recovered some extra physique components of the sufferer on Saturday.
In one other case, through which a girl’s severed head was discovered from a rubbish vat in a residential locality in south Kolkata on Friday, police have arrested the girl’s brother-in-law.
The sufferer was recognized as Khateja Bibi, 40, a resident of Magrahat in South 24 Parganas. She used to return to Kolkata every single day to work as a home assist in some homes in Golf Inexperienced space in south Kolkata.
The severed head was noticed by some locals within the vat on Graham Highway in Golf Inexperienced. It was inside a plastic bag. On Saturday police recovered some extra physique components of the sufferer from the banks of a pond round 600 metres from the vat.
Police scanned via the CCTV footage put in within the space, together with retailers and a temple, and noticed the sufferer’s brother-in-law Atiar Lashkar. He works as a mason,” mentioned an officer.
Problems within the relationship of the girl along with her brother-in-law have been suspected to be the reason for the homicide, he added. Police mentioned that the sufferer was strangulated to demise after which decapitated.