CURATED BY – SUNIL YADAV | CITYCHIEFNEWS

Katni, Police of Sleemanabad police station of Katni has arrested two accused of raping and killing a woman in village Lingri. The main accused first forcibly had physical relations with the woman and to avoid defamation, along with his partner, attacked the woman with an axe and killed her..and fled with the mobile of the deceased.

Katni Superintendent of Police Abhijeet Kumar Ranjan said that on March 1, information was received in Sleemanabad police station..that the body of a woman was found lying in the shade of a house built in the field of Balveer Singh in village Ligri Dugariahar.

Deep wounds are visible on her head and police was informed about it and police reached the spot and registered a case and started investigation. During investigation police suspected two persons and when both the suspects Himanshu Singh Thakur and Chimpu Bhumiya were interrogated they told that Himanshu Thakur had raped the deceased first. Himanshu was afraid that the victim might tell this to someone, due to which Himanshu killed her with an axe and kept the axe in the shed in Chippu Bhumiya's field and Chippu Bhumiya made Himanshu abscond. Police have presented Himanshu Singh Thakur as the main accused and Chippu Bhumiya as co-accused in the court.