Disclosing the matter on Thursday in the police line auditorium, SP Abhinandan, Additional SP Laxmi Niwas Mishra and CO Ziauddin Ahmed said that Pradeep Chauriha alias Ramu Chauriha, a clerk posted at Hindu Inter College Atarra, a resident of the town of Atarra police station area, was arrested on 17/18 April. He was strangled to death while sleeping at night.
On Thursday, the police arrested the deceased’s wife Jyoti Chauriha, her friend Sanjay Singh, a resident of Shukul Kuan in the town Kotwali area, and Raghavendra Singh, a resident of Rasda village in Pailani police station area. Three mobile phones fitted with confidential SIM cards, a niche murder knife have been recovered from them.
Facebook befriended, husband’s murder planned
Superintendent of Police Abhinandan told that Jyoti, wife of clerk Ramu Chauriha, befriended Sanjay Singh of Shukul Kuan of Kotwali Nagar on Facebook a few days ago. They had also met twice in January and March this year. Jyoti did not get along with Ramu. She wanted to live freely.
Plan made in the greed of property and job
In the greed of getting a job in his place after killing her husband and property, she along with Facebook friend Sanjay and another accomplice Raghavendra planned to kill the clerk. On April 11, Sanjay and Raghavendra stayed at Atarra. On the night of 17/18 April, Ramu had fallen asleep under the influence of alcohol.
DVR was also made missing
Seeing the opportunity, wife Jyoti first switched off the CCTV cameras installed in the house and made the DVR disappear. Both the friends were called inside through the back door. All three together killed the clerk by slitting his throat with a knife. After committing the crime, Sanjay and Raghavendra escaped from there.
was accusing the brother-in-law
On the other hand, Jyoti used to cry continuously after the incident to mislead the police. Did not give any statement. On Thursday, she came to the police station to file a complaint accusing her brother-in-law of killing her husband. During this he was taken into custody. Two other accused have been arrested from the dhaba located on the highway.