Lucknow: Killed by paramour, woman’s body dug out

LUCKNOW: Body of a 34-yearold woman was exhumed from the house of her paramour in Manak Nagar on Wednesday. Police said the woman’s paramour had hacked her to death and buried the body in a pit to conceal the crime.
ASP (West) Vikas Tripathi said the accused, Vijendra Kumar Yadav, 40, was unmarried and had a relationship with the victim, Ram Janki, after her husband’s death several years ago. He said Yadav wanted to marry Janki, but she was reluctant. He said the accused had had verbal duel with the woman on the issue when she visited his house on ‘Karwa Chauth’ on October 27, 2018.
Tripathi said that the woman’s mother Sumitra Devi had lodged a missing complaint about her daughter at Saadatganj police station on October 28, after she had gone missing after leaving her rented house in Ram Nagar Colony on Campbell Road on October 27.
“We nabbed Yadav after scanning his call details. He also confessed to the crime during the interrogation and led us to the place where he had buried the body,” added Tripathi.
The woman’s decomposed body was exhumed in presence of the district administration and sent for post-mortem examination.
Tripathi said the field unit of forensic experts was called on the spot to examine the crime scene and collect evidences.