Rajkot: A 27-year-old man was arrested in connection with the murder of 42-year-old female village sarpanch Nanduben Rathod, a resident of Bodva village in Kodinar taluka of Gir-Somnath district.
According to the police, Rathod, sarpanch of Bodva village, was found murdered on Wednesday from the village's outskirts after she went missing on Tuesday evening. Her family members searched for her and her son received a text message on his mobile from his mother stating, ‘save me’.
Villagers found her body in a farm lying in a pool of blood after she was stabbed to death by the accused.
“We received information about the Rathod’s relation with accused Deepak Sosa, who is also a resident of Bodva village and called him for questioning. He confessed to killing the sarpanch,” police said.
“Deepak is unmarried and the duo had been in an affair since 2014. He claimed that Rathod used to demand money from him regularly for their relationship and on Tuesday too, asked for more money. Accused called her to a farm owned by Bhupat Solanki in the village and stabbed her to death there,”' police added.
Deepak, who was addicted to crime serials, pre-planned her murder. He did not escape from the village after the murder and in order to divert investigation, sent the text message from deceased's mobile number to her son, police added.