Man arrested for killing ex-lover, burning her body

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Man arrested for killing ex-lover, burning her body

Monday, 06 January 2020 | PNS | Dehradun

The discovery of a partially burnt body of a woman with a wound on the head stirred up the police into action on Sunday. Following the grisly discovery in Nayagaon area under Patelnagar police station, the police teams formed to solve the case arrested a man who confessed to having murdered the woman because she had refused to marry him.

Addressing the media, the deputy inspector general/Dehradun senior superintendent of police Arun Mohan Joshi said that the police were informed on Sunday about a partially burnt body of a woman on the roadside in Nayagaon area. The police teams formed after this first started effort to identify the woman.

Later, beat constables were sent photograph of the victim on WhatsApp to check about any young woman missing in their respective beats. This revealed that a young woman living in the Gorakhpur tea-estate area had been missing since Saturday evening. Her family members were contacted and later they identified the victim. 

They informed that she had left home at 3:30 PM on Saturday without informing anyone. The police then checked the footage from CCTV cameras installed in the area and other locations. The victim was spotted with a man in the CCTV footage. When the footage was shown to the victim’s family members, they identified the man as Usman Qureshi who lives near their home.

They further said that he was having an affair with the victim for the past five years. The police then searched for Qureshi and managed to nab him from the ISBT area. During police interrogation, he confessed to having murdered the woman. He said that he was having an affair with her for about five years and wanted to marry her.

However, some months ago, her family got her engaged to Jitendra alias Abhishek. After that she started interacting with her fiancé and reduced her interaction with Qureshi. The accused said that he asked the woman to marry him but she refused, though he continued his attempts to convince her.

On Saturday, he saw her with her fiancé and told that man to not marry her. Since Jitendra refused to entertain Qureshi, he allegedly thought of killing the woman. He phoned the woman an asked her to meet him one last time, while also telling her to leave her mobile phone at home.

 He then took her on his two-wheeler towards Bhagwapur-Haridwar. While returning at about 11:30 PM, he told the woman to accompany him to Sahastradhara and spend the night with him at a hotel. She refused and said that she wanted to return home.

He then took her towards Nayagaon but turned back due to police checking at a barrier. Near Ganeshpur he took her to the roadside near a boring machine and strangled her to death while also smashing her head on stones on the roadside. He then dragged the body to a field. 

In order to conceal her identity, he soaked a rag in petrol from his two-wheeler and used it to set her body on fire.

Though the body was burnt only partially, he left it there due to the traffic on the nearby road. He said that he left home on Sunday morning and was looking for a safe place to hide when he was caught by the police.

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