In a major breakthrough Ranchi Police on Thursday arrested the main accused in the Ormanjhi murder case - Sheikh Bilal.
Ranchi, Rural Superintendent of Police (SP), Noushad Alalm informed that on the basis of information received from sources, Bilal has been arrested from Kute village in Sikidari. Bilal's first wife and son are already in police custody in the Sufia murder case for interrogation, he added.
Alam said that the Special Investigating Team (SIT) took Bilal to the spot where he had killed Sufiya Parveen and recreated how he had given the result to the crime. "Police raided Kute village after getting a tip off that Bilal was trying to escape from the place. Police reached the spot and arrested him when he was travelling by an auto rickshaw,” he added.
Parveen's headless body without clothes was found from the bushes behind Sainath University in Ormanjhi on January 3. About nine days later, the police was successful in revealing the woman's identity and find the skull, which was hidden in the farm of Bilal.
Sheikh Bilal is a resident of Chandve, Ranchi. The head of the woman was recovered on January 12 from a farm located some distance away from her house. The deceased Sufia was the second wife of accused Bilal.
Ranchi Police recovered the woman's naked and beheaded body from the bushes behind Sainath University on January 3. Neither the police was able to identify the deceased nor there was any information about the severed head. Teams of dozens of policemen were constantly looking for the forest and surrounding areas, but they could not find any clue in connection with the case.
Amidst the allegations and counter-allegations, the Ranchi police was under tremendous pressure to find out the killers. SSP Surendra Kumar Jha and his entire team toiled hard to get leads about the killed young woman and the killers. All the sources were explored. Information was collected about missing cases of girls from police stations of nearby districts including Ranchi.
The SSP asked his sources to identify the girl, who may be missing but her case has not been reported at the police station. On January 10, the police source found a family, whose married daughter was missing for the last few days, but they did not inform the police about this. The family is a resident of Chatwal in Chanho police station area. Police brought family members to Rajendra Institute of Medical Science (RIMS) in Ranchi to identify the woman's body. After seeing the body, the family members accepted that it was the body of their daughter Sufia Parveen. The family members confirmed the identity on the basis of an old burn mark in one foot of the dead body.