A 24 year-old youth was murdered in Pokharia village under the Pannk-Narayan police station area of Bokaro district on Friday-Saturday night.
Santosh Ghasi, brother'of the deceased youth, has lodged an FIR in which he has named co-villager Tejo Saw, his wife Lilawati Devi, brother Umesh Saw and uncle Sukar Saw as accused.
Bokaro SP Kartik S said the crime prima facie appeared to be linked to a love affair. According to Bermo Inspector Laxamikant, Tejo Saw and his wife Lilawati Devi have been arrested. Raids are on to arrest the other accused, he said. According to reports one Gudia Kumari, daughter of Tejo Saw belonging to Pokharia village under the Pannak-Narayan police station was in love with co-villager Santosh Ghasi but recently she got married to someone else. Her lover Santosh Ghasi wanted to meet her on Friday mid-night. As he reached her house at Pokharia village in the night her family members saw him and attacked him with traditional weapons like axe killing him on the spot.
His body was dumped in near by buses. Someone who passed through the location seen the dead body of youth with pull of blood and alerted the local police. Soon after information police reached the spot and recovered the dead body and sent it for postmodern and matter is under process.