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Excelsior Correspondent
SAMBA, Feb 18: Samba police has solved a blind murder case registered at Police Station Ghagwal with the arrest of accused person within seven hours from the occurrence of murder.
According to the report, brief facts of the case are that on 16.02.2020, at about 1330 hrs an information received through reliable sources at P/S Ghagwal that one Aatama Ram, S/o Mukhtyar Chand of Patyari Katlan Tehsil Ghagwal district Samba at present Bari Brahmana has killed one lady age approximately 40 years whose particulars are not known. The body of the deceased lady is lying in the house of accused namely Aatma Ram at Patyari Katlan and accused has fled away after the incident.
On this information, a case FIR No.16/2020 U/S 302 IPC was registered at Police Station, Ghagwal and investigation started. During the course of investigation, Dy.SP Hqrs Samba and Police Party of PS Ghagwal rushed to the spot along with FSL team Samba and crime photographer, examined scene of crime, collected evidences from the spot with the help of FSL team and photography of scene of crime was also conducted. The body of deceased was taken in police custody for conducting of autopsy and kept at Mortuary DH Samba.
Police said efforts were made to identify the deceased lady and in the evening, the family of the deceased was contacted, who identified the deceased as Anita Devi W/o Nirmal Chandra R/o Garshyari Tehsil Patti district Champawatt Utrakhand A/p Dhyansar Bari Brahmana. The postmortem of the deceased lady got conducted at DH Samba and dead body was handed over to legal heirs for last rites. A large scale hunt to apprehend the accused was started and at about 2000 hrs the accused was arrested and taken into custody.
During the course of interrogation accused disclosed that he had developed illicit relation with the deceased lady sometime back and she was regularly demanding money and blackmailing the accused due to which he killed her. Further investigation in the case is going on.