Close on the heels of Shraddha Walkar murder case in the national capital, severed body parts of a woman were found in a well at Ahraula area in Azamgarh on Tuesday. Following which, a man was arrested on Sunday after an encounter with the police for killing the woman and chopping her body.
The accused, Prince Yadav, was hit by a bullet in a gunfire encounter with the police on Sunday when he was taken to a spot for the recovery of the head of the woman, which he allegedly threw in a pond, police said in a statement.
Prince, 24, stangled Aradhana Prajapati, 22, of Ishaqpur village with the help of his cousin, Sarvesh,& hacked her body into pieces before dumping them into a well on November 10. Her head was disposed of six kilometres away. #Azamgarh #UttarPtadesh https://t.co/J3mjUIVjjM pic.twitter.com/VDEbMlEirR
— Arvind Chauhan (@Arv_Ind_Chauhan) November 20, 2022
According to police, Yadav, who was arrested on Saturday, had concealed a country-made pistol at the spot and used it against police in an attempt to flee from their custody. He confessed to killing Aradhana as she had allegedly “betrayed him” by marrying another person despite being his girlfriend.
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The murder
The accused took his ex-lover to a temple and then strangulated her in a sugarcane field on November 9. Prince’s cousin Sarvesh was an accomplice in the crime. The two then cut her body in six parts, packed them in a polythene bag, and threw it into a well, police said.
They threw the head into a pond some distance away. A sharp-edged weapon, a country-made pistol, and a cartridge have been recovered by police in the case so far.
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Sarvesh, Pramila Yadav, Suman, Rajaram, Kalawati, Manju, Sheela, all of whom allegedly helped Yadav in the crime, are still at large.
The incident had come to light on November 15 after some locals found the body inside a well located outside Paschimi village. The body of the woman, who was later identified as Aradhana, was found in a semi-naked condition, and seemed to be two to three days old, Superintendent of Police (Azamgarh) Anurag Arya had earlier said.
Close on the heels of Delhi horror
The incident comes in the wake of the bone-chilling Shraddha murder case in Delhi in which her live-in partner, Aaftab, allegedly strangled her and sawed her body into 35 pieces which he kept in a 300-litre fridge for almost three weeks at his residence before dumping them across the city over several days.
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