Vadodara: In a dramatic turn of events, the school teacher in Chhota Udepur district, who had stabbed his cousin, the 28-year-old principal on the morning of December 4, was found dead in a well in Haripura village of Naswadi taluka on Sunday afternoon.
The body of 25-year-old Bharat Pithia, who was to get married on December 9, was spotted in the 70 foot deep well by locals working in the fields on the bank of Ashwin river nearby.
Haripura is around 10 km from Linda village, where the victim Meraman Pithia was working as the principal of the government-run Model School for the past five years. Bharat was a teacher in Kolamba primary school for the last three years and both families lived in Naswadi town’s Ramdevnagar Society.
Cops suspect Bharat jumped into the well either late on December 4 or on Saturday as his body had not decomposed.
Sarpanch of Haripura village then informed police to fish out the body. “We did not find any identity card with the body. But some teachers with whom Bharat and slain cousin Meraman have worked, identified him,” said sub-inspector C D Patel of Naswadi police station.
“We suspect that he committed suicide due to guilt, but this can be confirmed only after a thorough investigation,” Patel said.
A team of policemen had also gone to Junagadh’s Selara village, the native of the two brothers.
“With Bharat too ending his life, the mystery over the reason behind the brutal attack has only deepened,” said a police officer.
At around 7am on December 4, Bharat had gone on the stabbing spree. When Kajal opened the door at 7 am, Bharat stabbed her and since she was holding her daughter, the kid was also injured. When Meraman rushed to her rescue, he stabbed him repeatedly in the neck and chest. Meraman died on the spot.