Bihar: Married woman, man found dead in Naugachia village

BHAGALPUR: A 25-year old married woman and a man in his early 20s were found murdered under mysterious circumstances at Abhiya village under the Gopalpur police station area in the Naugachia police district on Sunday morning. Both were neighbours.
The deceased, identified as Shilpi Kumari and Rahul Kumar, had bullet injuries on their bodies. They were found dead in the woman’s toilet in the backyard of her house. Shilpi’s husband Subodh Kumar Bharti alias Subodh Mandal is a BSF jawan posted at Ahmedabad in Gujarat. They have three children. She was living with her in-laws.
Shilpi’s mother found the toilet locked from inside in the morning and no one responded. Then she called her husband and they broke open the door to find the two dead.
Naugachia SP Swapna G Meshram said a countrymade pistol was also found at the spot. There were forced entry marks in the toilet. The family members of both the deceased as well as local people were being interrogated, the SP said. No one from either of the two families has accused anyone.
When asked, the SP did not rule out love angle or some serious family dispute. Forensic science experts were called and the postmortem report was awaited, the SP said.
Rahul alias Sintu Mandal was unmarried and had reportedly qualified the written examination recently for recruitment in Bihar police. He was preparing for the physical test in the village. Rahul’s father Pramod Mandal is in Bihar police and posted in Banka. Both the families were not on good terms, sources said.
It seems they were murdered inside the toilet on the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday, village sources said. Her husband has been informed and he is likely to reach Naugachia on Monday.
After receiving the news, SP Meshram, SDPO Dilip Kumar and police teams from Gopalpur, Parbatta, Ismailpur and other police stations reached the spot and started investigation.