Excelsior Correspondent
SAMBA, Sept 9: District Police Samba has solved a blind murder case registered at Police Station Bari Brahmana with the arrest of accused person within 24 hours from the commission of crime.
SP Samba, Ajaz Zargar while talking to reporters said on September 7 at 0700 hrs an information was received through reliable sources at PS Bari Brahmana that a dead body of female was lying near Raghunath Temple at Main Bazar Bari Brahmana in suspicious circumstances. Taking cognizance of the matter, an inquest proceeding U/S 174 CrPC was initiated at P/S Bari Brahmana to ascertain the cause of death.
He said during the course of enquiry, the dead body has been identified as Rinku Devi, W/o Chaterwali Singh of village Lodipur P/o Patriya, Jehanabad, Bihar presently at Village Dollian Bari Brahmana. It has surfaced during the enquiry that the person namely Puran Chand alias Bitu S/o Kewal Krishan R/o W.No. 13 Bishnah was compelling her to develop illicit relation with him as he was living in her neighborhood.
On September 6, in the evening the accused Puran Chand called the deceased lady in his rented accommodation at Telli Basti, Bari Brahmana with the intention to sexually assault her. When the lady resisted him, he assaulted her both physically and sexually as a result she started bleeding excessively and subsequently she died. Later the accused Puran Chand took the dead body, abandoned it near Raghunath Temple at Main Bazar, Bari Brahmana and fled away from the spot, SP said.
Acting swiftly, a police team of PS Bari Brahmana arrested the accused Puran Chand alias Bitu S/o Kewal Krishan R/o W.No. 13 Bishnah, Jammu from Bishnah area within 24 hrs after the murder. The act of accused amounts to prima facie offences U/S 302/376-A/506 IPC and accordingly a formal case FIR No. 194/2020 U/S 302/376-A/506 IPC has been registered at P/S Bari Brahmana and further investigation started.
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