DURG:

 

FOUR days after the police recovered the body of a 55- year-old woman from the bushes near Pulgaon nullah flyover, two youths have been arrested in connection with her murder. According to police, the victim met the accused identified as Harsh Yadav (19), a resident of village Pisegaon and 20-year-old Nitesh Thakur of village Chandkhuri near the Tahsil office on July 16. The trio then went to the Pulgaon nullah area in an e-rickshaw. Police said that a heated argument broke out between the victim and the accused over a monetary dispute. Enraged, the duo strangled her with a scarf and smashed her head with a boulder, leading to her death. City Superintendent of Police, Harishit Mehar confirmed that the cause of death was severe head trauma resulting from the boulder attack.

 

While the victim’s body was found in a partially naked state, police stated that sexual assault remains unconfirmed as the medical report has not been received so far. While addressing the media persons in Bhilai on Tuesday, Additional Superintendent of Police (Urban) Sukhnandan Rathore informed that the investigators tracked down and identified the suspects by thoroughly scanning CCTV footage from around 300 cameras installed in Pulgaon and its adjoining regions. After committing the crime, the accused returned to their respective homes where they hid their blood-stained clothes. Although they initially attempted to mislead investigators, they confessed to the crime after being interrogated strictly.