Uttar Pradesh: Murdered woman’s head recovered from well

KANPUR: The head of a

woman

whose torso was recovered from

Sarwal village

in Asothar police area in

Fatehpur district

on February 6, was on Monday found in a well in Sewramau village in

Ghazipur

police area of the district.

The woman’s headless body was found from a mustard field by the police. During investigation, the police had recovered a piece of paper with mention of a couple of mobile phone numbers from the pocket of the jeans of the woman.

Based on which, subsequently, the police picked up a truck driver from Banda. On the basis of information provided by him, the police recovered the woman’s head from a well in Sewramau village on Monday.

The police found surgical gloves from near the well, besides blood stain marks were also found close to the well, which were preserved by forensic experts for further investigation.

The truck driver had revealed that the woman, who hailed from Raebareli had eloped with his relative Bhola Pandit of Sarwal village about three months ago. Initially everything was fine, but the woman had differences with Bhola over some issues. At present, Bhola along with the woman was living at Dado village of the district, police said.

During the late night hours of February 5, Bhola brought her to Sarwal village and hacked her to death. They disposed of her torso in Sarwal village while head in Sewramau village. Exact motive behind the brutal killing of the woman is yet to be ascertained. The questioning of the truck driver to ascertain the same is continuing. Also, on the basis of inputs provided by him, we are in the process of zeroing in on the main accused Bhola and a few more suspects, who are still on run, police added.

“On Monday, we have recovered the head from a well in Sewramau village and dispatched it to mortuary for autopsy. Things will become much clear once we would be able to arrest main accused Bhola,” said

SWAT

in-charge Vinod Mishra.