PANAGAR police have unfolded the blind murder mystery of a woman and arrested her relative for killing her within 24- hours of the incident. The accused killed the elderly woman relative out of greed for her land and pension money. The arrested has been identified as Tulsi Kevat (42), a resident of village Badera, currently living in Bhatta Mohalla, Subhash Ward, Panagar. Additional SP (Crime), Jitendra Singh, while addressing a press conference on Tuesday, informed that on November 16, the body of an unidentified woman was found near chimney brick kiln area in village Nargawan in Panagar.

 

SHO, Panagar Vipin Tamrakar and team reached the spot. Senior officers including SP Jabalpur Sampat Upadhyay, CSP Adhartal Rajeshwari Kaurav and FSL officer Dr Neeta Jain also inspected the spot. On the basis of post-mortem report, Panagar police had registered a case under Sections 103(1) and 238(1) of BNS. Investigating the case, police identified the victim as Phool Bai Kevat (58), wife of late Rikhi Ram Kevat, a resident of village Nibhaura, Panagar. In further investigation, police learnt that the elderly woman had two sons and two daughters and had been living alternately with them.

 

For the past month, she was staying with her relative Tulsi Kevat. During interrogation, Tulsi Kevat confessed that Phool Bai used to receive her late husband’s pension and owned 1 acre of land in Nibhaura. Hoping to inherit her property and money, Tulsi had been taking care of her for a month. When Phool Bai refused to give her money or transfer the land, Tulsi was enraged. When she was leaving his house to visit her brothers, Tulsi stopped her in Nargawan, attacked her with bricks and strangled her to death. Based on his disclosure, police recovered broken bricks used in the crime.

 

The blind murder mystery was solved with the active working of police team led by SHO Vipin Tamrakar comprised of SI Akash Singh Rajput, Priyanka Mehra, Ravi Singh Parihar, ASI Sanjay Mishra, Head Constables Brahmdutt Tiwari, Amit Shrivastava, Constables Dwarika Mishra, Ravi Verma, Rahul Ahirwar, Manish, Prince Singh, Sujeet Mishra and Dilip Gupta