Police arrest accused in Mahisagar woman murder

The police registered a case of murder against Bhimsen at Bakor police station.

Ten days after Chandrika’s decomposed body was recovered from the Mahisagar river in the village, the police said that the deceased allegedly got into an altercation with the accused while trying to escape sudden rain accompanied by storm at an Urs celebration.

According to the Deputy Superintendent of Police, SC ST Cell, SK Valvi, who is investigating the case, the accused has told the police that the victim had fallen and become unconscious during the altercation.

Valvi said, “The accused and the victim got into a quarrel while a crowd was trying to escape the rain and storm… Chandrika had got separated from her cousins at the fair as several people tried to run from the storm. The accused has told the police that he had pushed Chandrika hard during the argument, and she fell unconscious after hitting her head on the ground… The accused then found a gunnysack in the vicinity and dumped her into the Mahisagar river.”

Valvi added that the police had also conducted a ‘reconstruction’ of the crime with Bhimsen.

The family of the victim on Sunday received the body of the victim from the cold room of the SSG, where it had been kept since March 21, to perform the final rites.

According to the victim’s brother Rishi, the family will perform a burial of the remains. He said,

“We have decided to bury her remains instead of cremation as are not yet satisfied with the investigation. We are demanding a Special Investigation Team (SIT) in this case and we are also willing to approach the CBI to investigate the case as we want to find out what really happened to my sister, who was found in a gunny sack from the river.”

Chandrika had gone missing on March 18, when she had gone to attend a Urs fair with her cousins. The group of cousins, police said, was caught in the strong dust storm, followed by the heavy rains that had lashed the village, and thereafter, Chandrika was missing.