A one-sided love affair ended in sorrow for a youth in Jhansi when in the name of saving family `honour’, the family members of the girl called him and brutally murdered him and threw his body in Pahuj river, passing through Unav area of Datia district in Madhya Pradesh, to conceal the crime.
After the victim did not return home, his family lodged a complaint of his disappearance and later the cops recovered the body and identified it with the help of name written on the hand.
Reports said that 27-year-old Arun Parihar of Nawabad police station area of Jhansi, was missing since last Thursday night. The family members claimed that Arun received a call on his mobile phone and later left home and went missing.
The family members also tried to contact him on his mobile but found it to be switched off.
The cops registered a case and launched a hunt for the victim.
Meanwhile, on Saturday, some local people saw a body lying in the Pahuj river and informed the police about it. The Datia police fished out the body and found the name `Arun Parihar’ written on the right hand. They made efforts to ascertain the victim’s identity but when all their efforts went in vain, they contacted the neighbouring Jhansi police on Monday morning and found a youth with similar identity missing from Jhansi.
The family was immediately summoned and they identified the victim as missing Arun.
After recovery of the body, Jhansi police tracked the mobile phone number which was received by the victim on the fateful day after which he went missing. The cops found it to be of a girl so they picked up her family members and grilled them.
According to the police, Arun Parihar was having a one-sided love with a girl. Every day he used to try to meet the girl. However, all this was not liked by the family members of the girl. Recently the marriage of the girl was fixed and the family members were afraid that the girl's in-laws might come to know about the one-sided affair.
On Thursday night, Arun was called and an attempt was made to pacify him. However, when he refused to stop following the girl, her family members brutally battered him to death. To dispose of the body, it was thrown into the Pahuj river. In-charge of the local police station, Tulsiram Pandey, said that the family was detained and that the accused involved in the killing were identified and they would be arrested soon.
Meanwhile, the body of a youth was recovered in Rae Bareli and the family members staged a protest alleging that the victim was murdered by his own friends with whom he went to see a play in a fair.
The cops assured of action and sent the body for autopsy.
Reports said that the cops recovered a body lying in a pool of blood near Rani Kheda village on Banda-Bahraich Highway under Shivgarh police station on Monday morning. The deceased was identified as Kamal Kumar (22) of Purva Majre Bhadawar, village Puri Guman Singh. For the last 14 years, Kamal was living with his maternal grandmother in Gudiya Garhi village. There was a fair in Behrampur village on Sunday and a `nautanki’ (play) was organised in the fair at night. Kamal went on a motorcycle with Ankul Kumar and Jageshwar to watch the `nautanki’.
Late on Sunday night, Kamal's friends called his brother-in-law Amarpal and informed him that Kamal had met with an accident. After this information, the family went and on Monday morning they recovered his body from the highway.
The father of the deceased accused Kamal’s friends of killing him and staged a demonstration demanding their arrest.
The cops sent the body for autopsy after pacifying the family members.
In Etah district, the bodies of a man and his brother-in-law, who had gone missing since Saturday night, were found in the Hazara canal along with the motorcycle late on Sunday night.
Both the victims were missing since Saturday night.
Reports said that Shiva of Amanpur police station in Kasganj district had left home on Saturday night with his brother-in-law Ashwani Raj Kapoor. After this, both did not return home and their phones were also out of network.
Meanwhile, late Sunday evening, near Jirsimi village of Kotwali Dehat area of Etah district, villagers saw a motorcycle lying in the canal so they informed the police about it.
Later the police recovered the bodies of both Shiva and Ashwani. Both the bodies were sent for post-mortem and further investigations were on.