Shahjahanabad police arrested a 54-year-old accused who strangulated a 50-year-old woman to death and dumped body at an under construction house at Marghatia temple premises on Thursday.
Accused Rajendra Prasad Vaidya was acquainted with the deceased Geetabai Dhanak who was pressuring him for marriage due to which he killed her.
On October 12 the body of an unidentified woman was lying in the septic of an under construction building in the Marghatia temple premises.
Since the case was related to the murder incident in the temple premises police acted swiflty. On the spot marks of drag and dry blood lying around the site of the incident were found. The post mortem revealed that the woman was strangled to death.
During the investigation footage of the CCTV cameras installed around the incident site and in the temple premises were investigated and it was found that on the morning of October 11 at around 8.42 am, the unknown deceased was seen entering the temple premises from outside and later the information of the body was received the next morning.
The photo was circulated through social media to search for the identity of the unknown deceased, on receiving the information, the deceased was identified by her family members as Gitabai, wife of Narmada Prasad Dhanak of Karond. It was found that Gita Bai used to visit Marghatia temple premises to meet Rajendra Prasad.
In the CCTV camera footage also Rajendra Prasad Vaidya was seen going to the spot two times suspiciously and when he was detained he accepted his crime and told that he was acquainted with Geeta Bai, he borrowed money from her and she wanted to marry her and was pressurising for both things due to which he killed her.