Killer’s slip-up helps Chattisgarh police crack murder case after 10 years
Killer’s slip-up helps Chattisgarh police crack murder case after 10 years
The murder case came to the fore again when the police found out that the main accused had casually mentioned to a friend that he had killed someone in 2011.
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Police were tipped off and arrested the main accused. (File photo)
The Chattisgarh Police solved a decade-old murder after the accused admitted to a friend that he had killed a man in 2011, PTI reported.
The case pertains to the murder of Lekhram Sen (40), a resident of Kosrangi village, whose body was found in a field in the neighbouring Farhada village back in January 2011.
Chhattisgarh: Police crack murder case after 10 years; 2 held
The victim, Lekhram Sen (40), a resident of Kosrangi village in Chhattisgarh, was killed in January 2011 at Farhada village.
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RAIPUR: Police have cracked a 10-year-old murder case after an accused during a casual conversation with a friend told him that he had killed a man in Raipur in 2011, an official said on Sunday.
After getting the lead, the police on Friday arrested the main accused, identified as Santosh Yadav alias Ghanshyam (30), and his associate Lokesh Yadav (32), Additional Superintendent of Police (Rural) Tarkeshwar Patel said.
The victim, Lekhram Sen (40), a resident of Kosrangi village here in Chhattisgarh, was killed in January 2011 at Farhada village in the district, he said.