Spurned in love, a boy murdered two of his acquaintances, including a 17- year-old girl, in revenge and buried their bodies in a graveyard located under Sukhdeonagar police station area in Ranchi city.
Police exhumed the body of the girl identified as Silky Gurung from graveyard on Monday. The remains of murdered boy Anuram Vishwakarma was also recovered from the same graveyard on Saturday.
Police have arrested the main accused Anmol Verma alias Kati and recovered two knives and blood stained clothes in connection with the crime. Speaking to media persons regarding the incident on Monday city SP Sujata Veenapani said Anmol was having affair with a girl for the past several years. She added the accused however was frustrated after the girl started neglecting her and suspected that Anuram have instilled ill will against him in his girl friend. Anmol also came to know that Silky had given a bad impression of him before his girlfriend and also told that her that she was having an affair with him too.
Anmol along with his accomplices took Silky to the graveyard on a false pretext and cut her throat on December 27. They later buried her body in an old grave. It may be noted here that a case of missing person had been lodged by Silky’s relative with the local police station regarding her. On Friday evening Anmol and his friends called Anuram to the graveyard to have drinks and snacks and murdered him also with knife. They threw the body in a cavity of an old grave and covered it with mud and grass. The next morning people however got suspicious when a large number of crows started hovering over the body and informed the police.
The City SP said, “During investigation a police team led by DSP Kotwali detained a minor for questioning. Based on his information, police recovered bloodstained clothes of Anmol. The accused was nabbed later following a tip off.”
She added Anmol confessed that he murdered both Silky and Anuram to take revenge for misleading his girlfriend. The city SP said police are looking for other persons involved in the crime. She said both Anmol and the deceased Anuram had criminal antecedents. She added that body of Silky has been sent to RIMS for post-mortem.