In a gruesome incident, a man allegedly killed his sister-in-law by slitting her throat before raping his mother-in-law over a family feud in a forest at Kiribur under the Bolani police station in Keonjhar district on Sunday. According to reports, the accused Rup Singh had a longstanding dispute with his in-laws. While his sister-in-law and mother-in-law had gone to a nearby forest to collect forest produce, he followed them. However, due to some reason an altercation took place between the trio and Rup in a fit of rage; slit the throat of his sister-in-law with a sharp weapon.
Then he dumped her body in a stone quarry pit. But the accused didn’t stop there. He tied his mother-in-law to a tree and allegedly sexually assaulted her. Eventually, his mother-in-law managed to escape and reached a nearby police outpost. She narrated the horrifying incident to police officials, who immediately informed Bolani police.
A police team led by Barbil SDPO on Monday reached the crime scene and recovered the body of the deceased from the pit and sent it to a hospital for postmortem. "We have started an investigation into the matter and questioned Singh’s mother-in-law and some of her neighbours.
A case has been registered in this connection and investigation is ongoing," police said.A manhunt has also been launched to nab the accused who is absconding after committing the crime, they added.