The accused, identified as Amit Sahu alias Pappu (37), also told the investigators that he killed the victim, Sana Khan, by hitting her with a stick in his house and later dumped her body in a river.
The minority wing chief of BJP's Maharashtra unit, Sana Khan, had gone to Jabalpur to meet her husband Amit alias Pappu Sahu. There had been disputes between Sana and Pappu regarding financial transactions.