Sitting amid the blackened remains of his home, 32-year-old Nikesh Gawali carefully broke open a half-melted plastic box with a screwdriver. His hands shook slightly, not out of fear, but out of hope. “I’m trying to find my daughter Aarti’s gold earrings,” he said quietly, still focused on the box. “She’s just five. I got them made recently after months of labour work.” The plastic box, warped and blackened by heat, was one of the few things left from his two-room house on the outskirts of Dhamangaon village . All around him lay ash, broken tin sheets and charred wooden beams. The walls had cracked under the heat and the front room’s tin roof had caved in completely. What remained was a blackened debris all around - almost nothing to suggest a home once stood there. Nikesh earns his living as an agricultural labourer, like many in the village. Work is uncertain and depends on the season. Those earrings weren’t just jewellery - they were a small dream, a reward for his hard work,...
In less than two days, the MIDC police cracked the Kartik Nagar murder case and arrested two persons including husband of the deceased. The deceased was identified as Anita Sanatkumar Sen-Tiwari (26) while accused are identified as Sanatkumar Dhnyanchand Sena (22) (husband) and Sashibhushan Munendra Sena (20), all are residents of Mankahari, Mannitola Tehsil, Riva, Madhya Pradesh.
The husband suspected the woman of infidelity hence, murdered him and tried to destroy the evidence. However, local residents noticed the accused when they were transporting the body and raised an alarm.
Earlier, the couple was living in Jalgaon district. Sanatkumar closed his business there when he suspected wife’s extra marital affair with some men and returned to their village in Riva district.
In first week of May, Sanatkumar hatched conspiracy to eliminate Anita and took her to Sashibhushan’s house at Kartik Nagar just two-days before on pretext of starting new business at Nagpur.
When Sashibhushan had gone to job, Sanatkumar slit throat of Anita with sharp-edged weapon and locked the house from outside. Sashibhushan arrived home at 9 pm. Booth brothers opened the door and wrapped the body in bed sheet. They threw off the body from compound wall at around 1 am. However, local residents noticed them when they were going to dump the body in a open pit of metro rail. The accused fled the area leaving the dead body on the road.
During investigation, the police identified the accused and their address and arrested the from Jabalpur Railway Station.
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