Strangled with a shirt, then murdered his friend with a liquor bottle
Jagdalpur: The dead body of a missing youth was found in the swamp behind Sun City after 6 days. The police have arrested the friend of the deceased accused of murder. According to the police, Rupesh Singh Thakur (19 years), resident of Bahadurguda, went out on his bike on September 8, after which he did not return. The family members reported the matter at Bodhghat police station on September 10. The police was searching for the young man.
On September 14, the police received information that the missing youth’s motorcycle was being driven by Rupesh’s friend Rishit Singh. Due to suspicion, suspect Rishit Singh (19 years) of Jagdalpur was interrogated. He told that on the night of 8th September, Nirmal was drinking alcohol with Rupesh Singh sitting behind the school, meanwhile both of them had a dispute over money. After this, Rupesh was murdered by strangulating him with his own shirt and by hitting him in the neck with a piece of liquor bottle.
Due to fear of being caught, they hid the body, liquor bottles and shirt of the deceased in the bushes near the spot of the incident and kept the motorcycle and mobile phone of the deceased with themselves. On which, under the leadership of police station in-charge Bodhghat Inspector Kavita Dhurve, at the behest of accused Rishit Singh, the body of deceased Rupesh Singh was recovered from the bushes near the incident site and at the behest of the accused, liquor bottles, soda bottles, water bottles, disposable glasses were recovered. , chips wrapper, a pair of slippers of the deceased, shirt of the deceased, mobile of the deceased, motor cycle, broken number plate and other evidence were recovered and seized.
The family identified the dead body, shirt, slippers, mobile and motorcycle. Accused Rishit Singh was arrested after he confessed to the murder and hiding the body in the bushes. Section 302,201 IPC in police station Bodhghat. After registering the offense under IPC, the said accused was sent to the court on judicial remand.
