A contractor Ramesh Singh from Varanasi was brutally killed after he was kidnapped by some men. His body was not found till date. According to the police, Ramesh was kidnapped from Jhumaritelaiya on February 2.
ASP, Naushad Alam told the media that they have arrested Santosh Bhuiyan s/o late Mohan Bhuiyan of Kalimanda Meghatari village under Koderma police station on Friday. A case has been registered under different Sections of the IPC against the kidnappers and further investigation is going on.
According to confessional statement of Santosh the abductors took Ramesh in the forest area of Rajauli(Bihar) and murdered him on 3rd February night. While they collected ransom of 4 lakh on 4th February.
According to him Pankaj Singh, Narendra Singh and othes hit Ramesh on the head and cut his body with a sharp weapon before they received the ransom from his wife in Riya Hotel at Nawada(Bihar).
According to Sheela, wife of Ramesh Singh, she talked to his husband on 2nd February. Her husband told her that he was going to Rajauli with same Singh sahib and would return the next day but she received a call on 3rd February, around 8 pm, for ransom.
She came to Nawadah and paid them ransom in the and they promised her that they would send her husband by train. However, she waited for him for one month and eventually came to Koderma and lodged FIR against them.
Although, the body of the Ramesh Singh has not been recovered yet.
Alam said they were investigating the case on the basis of mobile calls and other details of th victim. Six men are suspects in the case out of which three — Pankaj Singh, Narendra Singh and Mukhtar Khan — are in Nawada Jail for another case in kidnapping and murder.
According to the police, the mobile number used to ask for ransom belonged to the victim.