Hazaribag: Hazaribag police on Wednesday arrested one Rakhi Sinha for allegedly conspiring to kill her husband with the help of her lover and two contract killers earlier this month. The 40-year-old woman was nabbed from her relative’s place at Shivpuri in Hazaribag where she was hiding ever since the cops launched a manhunt to nab her following the trio’s arrest on December 6, police said.
Hazaribag SDPO Kamal Kishore said, “The woman has confessed to her crime and admitted that she was having an affair with Nabin Rana who had promised to be with her and her eight-year-old son following the murder.” He added, “She has been charged under Sections 115, 118 and 120B of the IPC. Following a Covid-19 test, the accused was forwaded to Hazaribag Central Jail.”
On December 2, police received a tip-off that the woman made a Rs 5-lakh-deal with Nabin, Imdad Hussain and Md Noman for killing her 45-year-old husband — identified as Sanjay Kumar Sinha, an employee at the forest department — on December 6. She paid them an advance of Rs 95,000 and promised to pay the rest from her husband’s death benefit.
Upon receiving the tip, Hazaribag SP Kartick S formed an SIT and initiated inquiry on the matter. On December 6, a police team, led by Muffasil police station OC Bajrang Mahato, followed the trio, who had rented a car to go to Gaya where Sanjay lived in a rented flat. The trio was nabbed while they were on their way to Bihar. Upon their arrest, they confessed to their crime and said Rakhi had paid them to kill Sanjay. She had reportedly told them that the front door of the house will be kept open for them and that they should enter immediately and strangulate her husband to death. Mahato said that the miscreants were carrying surgical gloves with them to avoid leaving any finger prints at the crime scene.