The Jharkhand police on Tuesday claimed to have cracked the murder case of a 24-year woman in the Seraikela-Kharswan district last week, with the official report saying that her teenage lover killed her with a piece of a concrete slab for refusing to have sex, a senior officer said.
The woman’s body was found near the Kharkhai river bank which falls under the jurisdiction of Seraikela police station on November 28. The police solved the case after arresting her 19-year-old lover Ghansiram Murmu alias Rahul.
The woman was not raped, the postmortem report revealed, contrary to what was alleged by her family members, Superintendent of Police Mukesh Kumar Lunayat said.
The police officer said that the woman had gone to meet Rahul on the evening of November 27 on the bank of the Kharkai River.
At that time, he demanded sex from her but she refused. Following an altercation, the accused killed the woman by hitting her with a piece of a concrete slab, the SP said The police also recovered the victim's mobile phone.
Meanwhile, expressing dissatisfaction with the police investigation, family members of the victim demanded a high-level inquiry into the murder.
Senior BJP leader Ramesh Hansda claimed that more than one person was present at the place of murder since three plates of snacks, and bottles of liquor and soft drink were found on the river bank.
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