Highlights
- A man in UP's Azamgarh strangled his ex-girlfriend to death
- The accused with the help of others chopped girl's body in 6 parts
- The accused has been arrested, victim's body parts have also been recovered
Azamgarh: An ex-lover has been arrested for strangling his ex-girlfriend to death, beheading and chopping her body in 6 parts and for marrying someone else in Uttar Pradesh's Azamgarh, officials said on Sunday. Cops said that the accused was pressuring the girl, who got married in February this year, to break her wedding and come with him, but she did not agree.
According to police, the girl's chopped body in semi-naked condition, beheaded head, clothes were found inside a well in Azamgarh.
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, police said in a statement.
"A beheaded body of a woman was found in a well. The main accused was arrested in an encounter with police... the other eight accused are to be arrested soon... the accused chopped deceased's body into pieces and threw them and her clothes in a well and her head in a pond. Clothes of the deceased and weapon were recovered," said Anurag Arya, Superintendent of Police, Azamgarh.
"The deceased got married in February this year when the accused was living abroad. On his return, he tried to persuade her to break her marriage. When she did not agree, he took her out on November 10 on the pretext of visiting temple and later took her to a field and strangled her to death," SP said.
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.
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.
The incident comes in the wake of a similar one reported in Delhi where a 28-year-old man allegedly strangled his live-in partner 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.
Yadav with the help of his parents, cousin Sarvesh, and other family members had planned to kill Aradhana, who was stated to be in her mid-20s, out of resentment because she had married someone else and not him.
She lived in Ishaq Pur village of Azamgarh district.
It has so far come to light that Yadav had an affair with the victim, who had got married earlier this year to some other person.
On November 9, Yadav had taken Aradhana on his bike to a temple.
When they reached there, he, with the help of Sarvesh, strangled her in a sugarcane field. 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.
Sarvesh, Pramila Yadav, Suman, Rajaram, Kalawati, Manju, Sheela, all of whom allegedly helped Yadav in the crime, are still at large.
(With inputs from PTI, agencies)
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