Enmity with a neighbouring family over a love affair led to the brutal murder of a 24-year-old youth. His body was found at a jungle near Tata-Kandra Road under Kandra police station area. The youth is reported to have ignored an earlier threat from his assailants to stop seeing a girl.
The body of victim, Devendra Mahto, a resident of Bankipur village, located along the Tata-Kandra Road body bore the marks of stabbing in the chest.
Police said this to be a murder which was an outcome of a prolonged affair between a 20-year-old girl and the victim Devendra.
Officer-in-charge, Kandra police station, T P Kushwaha said that Devendra who worked in an industrial unit at Adityapur had an affair with Punam Mahto since the past three years, and used to meet at a place behind the under-constructed school, Shein International School on Tata-Kandra Road regularly.
"As per our investigation on Thursday, Punam called Devendra, asking him to meet behind a school. As he approached the girl, he was surrounded by four-five persons who attacked him with knives," said the officer-in-charge. He said the assailants killed him by stabbing and mutilating his head with bolders. The officer-in-charge said that in this connection, Kaluram has lodged an FIR with the Kandra polilce station alleging Punam Mahto, her father Madhu Mahto, both residents of Chhota Hariharpur, and others.
The officer-in-charge claimed that the beloved of Devendra must not be directly involved in the murder, and rather she must have been used as instrumental in calling the victim at the meeting point by her father and other associates. We want to identify the associates of the main accused Madhu Mahto," said the officer-in-charge.
The police have his body for a post-mortem to the MGM Medical College mortuary after a case under sections conspiracy and murder was registered against Punam, Madhu Mahto and others on the basis of the FIR.