Kumar Rajiv Nayan
Ara : Bhojpur police on February 10, 2022, arrested two persons including woman in connection with murder of a person at village Dhundhua under Ara Muffasil police station (PS). The deceased was identified as Arun Kumar of Dhundhua village. The arrested miscreants were identified as Anju Kumar, 25, wife of the deceased, and Ranjeet Kumar alias Tantrik alias Sadhu 27, elder cousin brother of the deceased. Later, the police sent them to jail after interrogation.
ASP Himanshu, talking to mediapersons on TFebruary 10, 2022, said that Arun Kumar of Dhundhua village under Ara Muffassil police station was mentally ill. Taking advantage, Ranjeet Kumar alias Tantrik alias Sadhu an exorcist, spread rumour at the village that Arun Kumar had some divine fury and so he was mentally ill. He allegedly got close to his wife Anju Devi. She became pregnant and went to her parents’ home. After giving birth to a child, she returned to her in-laws’ place but felt that her husband would come in her way of her illicit relation with Ranjeet Kumar and so she allegedly hatched a plan and with the help of her lover, she got her husband killed on February 5, 2022.
The arrested persons disclosed that to execute their plan, Ranjeet Kumar took Arun Kumar under a tree at the village on February 5, 2022, on Sarswati Puja day and asked Arun Kumar to lay on his stomach. As he laid, Ranjeet Kumar sat on his back and allegedly strangulated him to death with a rope and threw the body in a garden about 5 km away from the place of occurrence. An FIR was lodged with Ara Muffassil police station on the statement of brother of the deceased against unknown persons in connection with murder of his brother. After institution of FIR, the SP formed a police team under ASP Himanshu and police team following scientific investigation, recovered body of the deceased on February 6, 2022.
The accused had informed police that the body was lying about 5km away from the village that raised finger of suspicion against the informers. Police kept vigil on them and arrested them. They confessed during investigation that they had killed Arun Kumar.