Cops work out murder case; arrest man, wife

LUCKNOW: In what could be the first work out of a murder case since the Indiranagar police station came into existence, cops nabbed a man and his wife on Saturday. The man, with his wife’s help, had allegedly battered his brother to death after the latter tried to attack his wife with an ill-intention in an inebriated condition on December 30.
The deceased was identified as Ramu Rawat, son of Ramdulare, a resident of Digdiga village in Chinhat police station area.His body was found on January 13 in a potato field of one Shiv Kumar in Rasoolpur village in Indiranagar police station area. The accused were identified as Rajesh Kumar Rawat and his wife Sushila Rawat.
Indiranagar station officer Atul Kumar Srivastava said the body of the victim, which had decomposed by then, was identified as that of Ramu by his family members on January 13. An FIR in this matter was lodged by Rajesh himself on January 16. According to the station officer, the first doubt arose from the delay in lodging the FIR by Rajesh. During the course of interrogation, Rajesh misguided the police telling them that Ramu had not returned home for the past two months and he did meet him once a few days back in a market. However, the villagers told the police that they had seen Ramu at Rajesh's house on December 30.
Another eye-witness also informed the police that he had seen Rajesh taking a sack filled with something on December 30 late night on his bicycle. After such specific information, Rajesh was grilled and he finally confessed to have killed his brother.
Citing reason, he told the police that it was ill-intention of Ramu towards his wife Sushila and a dispute over property which ultimately became the reason for the murder. Owing to this, Ramu had been indulging in regular brawls with his brother Rajesh. Elaborating, Rajesh told police that on December 30, Ramu had come to his house in an inebriated condition and tried to molest his wife. Enraged over this, Rajesh picked up a brick and started hitting Ramu on his head. This led to the death of Ramu on the spot.
Thereafter, Rajesh and his wife tied the body of Ramu with a piece of cloth and then put the body in a sack. He took the sack on his cycle on December 30 night and took it behind a brick-kiln. From there, he dragged the sack to the field of Shiv Kumar, opened the hands and legs and left the body in the middle of the field. He then took the sack with him back home. Back at home, Rajesh and Sushila properly cleaned the floor of the house.
The police have found the brick used to kill Ramu. Rajesh and Sushila have confessed to killing Ramu, the police said.