In Chhattisgarh’s Bemetara district, a lover killed his girlfriend and threw her body in a valley and then committed suicide himself out of fear of being arrested. The name of the deceased was Sapna Vishwakarma who was a teacher in a school. The police have recovered the woman’s dead body. The lover also allegedly committed suicide by jumping into the river. Police gave this information on Tuesday. The landlord of the deceased accused has been arrested for helping in hiding the woman’s body.
Additional Police Superintendent of Kabirdham Vikas Kumar said that the murder took place on August 2 in Lolesara village of Bemetara district, but it came to light when the victim’s mother lodged a missing person’s report in the neighboring Kabirdham district on August 8. He said that Savitri Vishwakarma, a resident of Dasharngpur police station area of Kabirdham district, lodged a complaint with the police that her daughter Sapna Vishwakarma, who was a teacher in Baghamuda Government School, was missing since July 27.
The police officer said Sapna’s call details and mobile location showed that she had been in Lolesara (Bemetara) till August 1. During the investigation, the police’s attention was drawn to Raghunath Sahu, a resident of Lolesara, who had rented his house to 43-year-old Ram Ashish Upadhyay, with whom the woman was in a relationship. “Sahu told the police that Upadhyay and Sapna were living together as tenants in his house and the two often quarrelled. On August 2, at around 3 am, Upadhyay called Sahu, who lives in another house nearby, and asked him to come to his house,” the ASP said.
When Sahu reached there, Upadhyay told him that he had strangled Sapna to death after a dispute and sought the landlord’s help in hiding her body, the official said. Upadhyay then took Sahu with him to his native place in Bhilai town in neighbouring Durg district and from there brought his SUV, Scorpio, to Lolesara, he said. The two then wrapped the body in a sheet and put it in the vehicle and drove it to Keshkal valley, over 250 km from Bemetara on the Raipur-Jagdalpur road, and dumped it there, he said. Meanwhile, a body was found in the Shivnath river in Bemetara on Sunday and the deceased was identified as Upadhyay.
