Indore: The police on Thursday arrested a man and his paramour in connection with killing woman’s brother-in-law (husband’s brother) in Manpur area. The accused had killed the man as he knew about their illicit relationship. According to the police, Manpur resident Amit Mukati was found murdered in his farm on May 29.
Autopsy report revealed that he was strangulated to death by an unidentified person. Later, the police started investigation and took statements of Amit’s family members but they did not doubt anyone as Amit had no enmity with anyone.
During investigation, it was found that deceased’s sister-in-Law Rina (brother’s wife) had extra marital affairs with Jitendra Choudhary of Sitapat village. Jitendra used to talk to her over phone and deceased Amit knew about their relationship.
On May 28, accused Jitendra called Rina to Sitapat to meet him when she told him that her brother-in-law will not allow her come as he knew about their relationship. As a result, Jitendra prepared a plan to kill Amit. As per plan, Jitendra reached Manpur on the same day and he attacked Amit with a heavy stone when he was going to his farm. After that, accused strangulated him to death using a plastic bag and fled the scene. The police have arrested Jitendra Choudhary who confessed to have killed Amit. The police later arrested Rina for hiding evidence.