The police on Thursday arrested Shashi Prasad (45), the senior manager, Indian Overseas Bank and also Mukesh Sharma (26) for their involvement in murder of 41-year-old woman Manju Prasad and her four-year-old son Dweej whose bodies were found in their apartment at Madhusudan Complex in Mango.
Prasad, who was posted in Kolkata had an affair with an 18-year-old girl whom he wanted to marry her, so he decided to kill his wife and four-year-old adopted son.
This is why he set two carpenters whom he gave a contract for `5 lakh to do away with his wife and son.
The police have recovered hand-gloves, one of the daggers used in the twin murder and also two shirts used by the killers. Revealing about the breakthrough, senior superintendent of police, Anoop T Mathew said that Prasad who is a resident of Biharsharif district in Bihar was not satisfied with his marital life as his wife Manju did not conceive a child despite there were married since 1999.
"As per our revelation, the couple had adopted a child in Guwahati four years ago when Prasad was posted there, the relation between the two was not good. He would pay some amount for maintenance of his wife and son who would stay at a rented house in Mango, he had developed relation with a teen-aged girl who is a cousin and stays in Gujarat. He had also made all plan for marrying the girl, but after getting rid of his wife and adopted son," said Mathew.
The senior SP, said Mukesh who is a resident of Moon City area in Mango was known to Prasad as the former had done some carpentry at his Mango residence before. Two months ago Mukesh approached Prasad and requested him for arranging a bank loan as he wanted to give his sister's marriage scheduled on December 8.
Prasad offered him to pay amount for committing the murder of his wife and son. Mukesh had teamed up with his brother-in-law, Mohan Sharma who is also a resident of the Moon City area in Mango and finalised the murder plan with Prasad during the latter's visit to Jamshedpur in November first week.
Senior SP said the two had subsequently picked up some gold and silver ornaments from the almirah about which Prasad had already tipped off so that it would look like a murder for burglary.