Maharashtra: Man held for 'killing' live-in partner, body stuffed in mattress
Palghar, Feb 14: Tulinj Police in Maharashtra's Palghar district on Tuesday arrested a man who was trying to escape after allegedly killing his live-in partner.
The accused was held by Railway Protection Force personnel from a train at Nagda in Madhya Pradesh, a police official said here.
Megha (37), who was a nurse by profession, was found dead in her rented house in Tulinj area on Monday after foul smell began to emanate from inside and neighbours alerted the police.
The body was found stuffed in a mattress. She was suspected to have been killed sometime last week, said senior inspector Shailendra Nagarkar.
The accused, her live-in partner, was jobless and they used to quarrel often. During one such quarrel he allegedly killed her, the official added.
He also messaged his sister about the killing and sold off furniture in the flat before fleeling.
A case of murder under Indian Penal Code section 302 has been registered and further probe is on, the official said.
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Body of Bihar Police personnel found hanging in barracks in Patna
Patna (PTI): The body of a Bihar Police personnel was found hanging from the ceiling of a room in his barracks here, a senior officer said on Sunday.
Patna Senior Superintendent of Police Kartikeya Sharma said a havildar with Bihar State Armed Police-1, popularly known as "Gorkha battalion", died allegedly by suicide as he had been suffering from some ailment.
The deceased left behind "two suicide notes", one in Hindi and the other in his native language Nepali.
"From the suicide notes, it appears that Navraj Sunar, the deceased havildar, had been suffering from some ailment which had caused him much mental anguish and may have driven him to take the extreme step," the SSP said.
The body was being sent to the native village of the deceased in Nepal after a post-mortem examination, while further investigations were on, with forensic experts inspecting the site of the incident.
