A 32-year-old man allegedly killed his spouse, chopped her physique into 5 items and hid them inside an empty water tank at his home in Chhattisgarh’s Bilaspur district, police mentioned on Monday.
The police on Sunday recovered the physique components from the tank, which was stored inside a room within the accused man’s rented home in Uslapur space underneath Sakri police station limits right here, an official mentioned.
The dying got here to mild when a crew of Bilaspur police’s anti-crime and cyber unit raided the home based mostly on a tip-off about printing of counterfeit forex there, Bilaspur Superintendent of Police Santosh Singh mentioned.
The accused had allegedly strangled his spouse Sati Sahu, 23 on January 6 suspecting her of infidelity, he mentioned. The police caught the accused close to his home and recovered some counterfeit forex notes from his possession, the official mentioned. In a subsequent raid on the home, the police recovered a color printer, photocopy papers and counterfeit notes within the denomination of Rs 500 and 200.
The police groups seen a foul odour emanating from a room near the toilet and recovered the physique components, wrapped in tape and polythene, from an empty water tank stored there, he mentioned. During interrogation, the accused revealed that he suspected his spouse of getting an extramarital affair and claimed that she was additionally interfering within the work of printing counterfeit forex, he mentioned.
“After killing his wife, the accused purchased a water tank and a cutter machine. He chopped the woman’s body into five parts and tried to set them ablaze. However, afraid that he might get caught due to the burning smell, he decided to conceal the remains in the water tank,” Singh mentioned.
The accused wrapped the stays with tape and packed them underneath polythene earlier than placing them contained in the tank, he mentioned. The man then dropped his two youngsters at his dad and mom’ home in Takhatpur village (Bilaspur district), the official mentioned. The accused had married Sahu, a local of neighbouring Mungeli district, 10 years in the past, he mentioned. The man has been arrested on the fees of homicide and printing counterfeit forex notes, the official mentioned.
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