KANPUR: A man allegedly bludgeoned his friend to death with the help of his aide after coming to know that he had tricked him into marrying an eunuch, who also ran away with the gold jewelry gifted by him in marriage.
The incident was reported from Ganeshpur village under the limits of Shivli Kotwali police station in Kanpur Dehat district.
The police recovered the battered body of Kailashnath from Devipur village on the morning of March 13. Subsequently, an investigation was launched following an FIR filed by the victim’s family.
The police on Tuesday arrested two persons, including the victim’s friend Shiv Narain Pal and his aide Raghuveer Pal in this connection.
Shiv Narain lives with his family in Devipur village in Shivli and earned a livelihood by farming four ‘bighas’ of land. “As family elders were pressuring him for marriage, he sought help from his friend Kailashnath of Ganeshpur village,” the police said.
“Kailashnath arranged a match for Shiv Narain in Bihar and told him that as the woman comes from poor financial background, her parents need money to host the wedding,” police added.
Shiv Narain disposed off a patch of his land and lent Rs 3 lakh to Kailashnath and the marriage was solemnised in Bihar recently.
While Shiv Narain along with his newly wed wife was on way to Kanpur Dehat from Bihar, she ran away along with gold jewellery. Later, Shiv Narain came to know that his bride was a eunuch. “Angry over the episode, when Shiv Narain called up Kailashnath to return the money he took for the wedding, he threatened him of dire consequences. Realizing that he had been conned, he decided to eliminate him,” said Inspector Shivli Pramod Kumar Shukla.