AHMEDABAD: An earring found on the corpse of Bharti Rajput was the clue that cracked this blind case — it has emerged that Rajput died of hanging after failed elopement and her father had dumped her body. Later, cops determined that the earring was similar to the ones the woman was photographed wearing.
The body was found at an isolated place near Rameshwarnagar railway tracks on the morning of November 30. At that stage, Meghaninagar police, which was investigating the case, had no leads.
Deputy commissioner of police, Zone 4, Rajesh Gadhiya said on Wednesday that the woman’s father, Jagdish Rajput, has been held. Jagdish is a resident of Bhargav Road and hails from UP.
“Jagdish has revealed that his daughter, 20, was in love with a man in the neighbourhood,” Gadhiya said. “She had eloped with the man on November 19, but was brought back by her family.” On November 21, the family left for UP’s Etawah; the woman returned to Ahmedabad alone on November 27 and stayed at a Naroda hotel. “On November 29, she called her lover in a reunion bid,” Gadhiya said. “However, the lover informed the woman’s family. Her kin took her back home and severely reprimanded her for her actions. She later died from hanging.” Police said Jagdish stuffed the body into a gunny sack and disposed of it at 3.45am on November 30. He set fire to the sack in an attempt to erase all evidence.