Decomposed body recovered from a trolley bag dumped in a ditch along NH-33 near Jamshedpur on February 14 night, has been identified as that of one Kajal Kumari hailing from Telco locality of steel city.
The Seraikela-Kharsawan police solved the mystery behind the murder. On Friday, they arrested two men and a woman for having professionally murdered the victim.
Those arrested in the murder case have been identified as Muhammad Mansur Alam alias Badshah (34), Kaushik Dutta (28), and Salma Bibi, all are residents of Kitadih locality which falls under the suburban Parsudih police station area.
While arresting the trio, police recovered three cell phones, a stick, a ‘duppata’, and a motorcycle that had been used to murder Kumari.
Elaborating on the breakthrough, Seraikela-Kharsawan district superintendent of police, Mohammed Arshi said, “The accused Badshah, a married man was in a live-in relationship with Kajal Kumari for the past two years.
“Similarly, Badshah’s wife Salma was in a relationship with Kaushik for the past six months. She also was aware of her husband being in a live-in relationship with Kajal. She wanted to teach her a lesson and had pressed her lover Kaushik to help her in eliminating Kajal,” said Arshi while addressing newsmen at Seraikela police office on Friday.
He added that while Salma and Kaushik were hatching a conspiracy to kill Kajal, Badshah joined them to eliminate her.
According to Arshi, the trio ‑ Badshah, Kaushik, and Salma strangulated Kajal at her rented house in Telco on January 22 night. The following morning Badshah and Kaushik stuffed the body in a trolley bag and dumped it in a ditch behind Pardih Kali temple along NH-33.
According to the senior police officer, the trolley had been dumped at a secluded place and hence it stayed undetected for 21 days.
“A rag-picker had spotted the trolley while scavenging. The stink made him alert the police. His lead made Chandil police recover the body on February 14,” he said.
All the three accused have been sent to Seraikela divisional jail after being produced before a judicial magistrate on Friday evening.
