Bhawanipatna: Police cracked Wednesday the murder case of two youngsters who were in love as they arrested three persons including the father and two other relatives of the deceased girl over honour killing at Banjipadar village under Dharmagarh police limits in Kalahandi district. The accused were identified as the girl’s father Kaneshwar Patel, brother-in-law Sundar Naik, and Uncle Debanand Patel. This was stated here by Kalahandi SP Abhilash G at a press meet held, Wednesday.
The accused persons had strangled the couple in love identified as Sunil Patel, 22, and Jemamani Patel, 20, both of Banjipadar village, and hanged them from a tree to give the murders the colour of suicide, Abhilash stated. The three accused killed the two lovebirds who were hiding in a sugarcane farm after escaping from their respective homes. The two had decided to run away as the girl’s family was opposed to the affair. After the boy and girl escaped from their respective homes, the family members of the girl started looking for her. When they found the couple, they brutally murdered the two. Then the girl’s father lodged a police complaint to evade suspicion, Abhilash added. Police had recovered the decomposed bodies of the two deceased hanging from a tree, July 9. After that, they launched a detailed probe into the matter and zeroed in on the three accused.
During interrogation, the three confessed to their crime, police said. Deceased Sunil’s family members said they were not against the relationship. However, they informed me that Jemamani’s family opposed the relationship as the two were related to one another. Sunil’s kin also told him that the two had been in love for a little more than two years and were eventually planning to get married.