A crime branch team of the Gurugram police has arrested a man for allegedly killing his live-in partner on March 11, 2025, police said.

The accused was identified as Shiv Shankar Sharma, Alias Kali Charan, a resident of Uttar Pradesh. While the victim was identified as Rita, a native of Bihar.

According to the police, on March 11, information was received regarding the body of a woman found in village Naharpur.

On receiving the information, the police team reached the spot where the body of a woman was found wrapped in a blanket in a field in village Naharpur.

The police team got to the scene and had the body inspected by the scene-of-crime and fingerprint teams and kept the body in the mortuary for postmortem and identification. On March 31, the deceased’s father identified the victim as his daughter, Rita, who was residing in village Naharpur, Manesar, in rented accommodation. He told the police in his complaint that his daughter Rita was married 11 years ago.

“About 5 years ago, Rita and her husband came to the village of Naharpur and started living on rent and started working here.

Due to a rift between his daughter and her husband, he left his daughter in Naharpur. After that, his daughter started living in a relationship with a person named Shiv Shankar, Alias Kalicharan,” he told the police.

Thereafter, he came to Naharpur to meet his daughter, where he came to know that a few days ago, the body of a woman was found in the fields here. He saw the photo of the body and identified her as Rita.

He suspects that Shiv Shankar, alias Kalicharan, has murdered his daughter.

On the complaint received, a case was registered under the relevant sections in Police Station Manesar, Gurugram. During the investigation, the police nabbed the accused on Monday from village Naharpur in Gurugram.

In the initial police interrogation, it was found that the above accused was in a relationship with Rita. The accused used to work as a laborer, and Rita worked in a company in IMT Manesar itself.

“The accused suspected Rita of having a relationship with someone else, due to which the accused killed Rita on February 23 and dumped Rita’s body in a wheat field,” Sandeep Kumar, spokesperson of the Gurugram police, said.

For further interrogation, the accused will be produced in the court and was taken into police custody.