A minor girl was strangled to death by her brother, and her body was beheaded by her father just because she used to talk to a boy in the Koderma district of Jharkhand.
The matter came to light when the beheaded body of the minor girl was found at nearby riverbanks on February 12.
Police said that a missing complaint was lodged about the disappearance of a minor girl in the village Brahmatoli under the Markacho police station area of Koderma district by the relatives of the minor girl on February 5.
Subsequently, an FIR was registered in the police station. In the course of the search police recovered a body buried in the sand on the banks of Jamuna Ghat of Panchkheri river. The family members of the missing girl refused to identify the body.
However, when they were repeatedly questioned on various points the family members got confused on their statement and ultimately they accepted that they had murdered the girl and hidden the body and separated the body and the head.
On the information given by the accused, the bicycle, sack and an axe used to hide the body after the murder were recovered and the septic tank used to hide the body after the murder was identified, from where the hair of the deceased was seized.
During interrogation, the brother of the deceased, Jyotish Kumar Pandey, confessed that the deceased used to talk to a boy and he used to scold the deceased girl for this.
On February 2, he saw them talking again and in a feat of rage, he strangled and killed his sister and buried the body in a septic tank to hide it.
However, fearing the police they dug the body out from the septic tank on the night of February 11, and took it to the bank of the river where the deceased's father Madan Pandey separated the head from the body and buried it.
Police have arrested the minor girl’s father Madan Pandey (73), brother Nitish Pandey (36),and brother Jyotish Kumar Pandey (20) and have seized the axe, sack and the bicycle used in the crime.
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