A woman who allegedly conspired with a farmer and an occultist to kill her mother-in-law and sister-in-law, whose bodies were exhumed from eight feet down the ground, in outer Delhi's Alipur area have been arrested, police said today.
The deceased, identified as Indrawati and her daughter Geeta, were missing since June. Their bodies were recovered yesterday from a field in outer Delhi, after digging eight feet into the ground, they said.
The accused have been identified by the police as Pardeep Kumar (38), Ikramuddin (61) and Sudesh (40) the daughter-in -law of Indrawati.
According to police, a missing report of Indrawati and Geeta Devi was registered at the Alipur police station by Indrawati's grandson, Ravinder on June 14 after they did not returned home since the afternoon of June 13.
Later, on June 17, a case of abduction was registered on the complaint of Indrawati's son and accused Sudesh's husband Amardeep
During the course of investigation, police said Geeta occasionally had heated arguments with Sudesh, so she and Amardeep were questioned.
Also, it was revealed that Pardeep, a farmer, use to cultivate Indrawati's field, but since past four months Indrawati had raised objection over his sowing the fields.
"It was learnt from reliable sources in the village that Pardeep was in regular touch with Sudesh. On July 7, Pardeep was interrogated. Pardeep had misguided the team on different occasions and tried to divert the investigation from his side to other suspected persons. Even Sudesh had visited police station and created ruckus demanding to apprehend the culprits," Deputy Commissioner of Police (Outer District) Vikramjit Singh said.
Pardeep later disclosed to the police he visited Indrawati's house as he was sowing her fields since four years.
During this, he noticed that there were differences between Indrawati and her daughter-in-law Sudesh.
"Pardeep further disclosed that he had regular talks with Sudesh and she stated before him that she wanted to kill Geeta and Indrawati as they had created lot of problems in her life since her marriage," said Singh.
Pardeep allegedly arranged a meeting with a Tantric named
Ikramudin with Sudesh.
Sudesh allegedly offered a sum of Rs 6 lakh to both persons to kill Indrawati and Geeta.
Pardeep and Ikramudin allegedly hatched a plan to win the confidence of Indrawati and Geeta. Geeta and Indrawati also wanted to get rid of Sudesh because of the problems being faced by them due to her, police said.
Pradeep got Ikrammudin to meet Inderawati and Geeta Devi, police said.
Ikrammudin again showed some occult tricks to them and said he could arrange evil spirits at an isolated place who would do their job, and thus they managed to win the trust of Indrawati and Geeta.
On June 13, Pardeep called Geeta and Indrawati and took them in his private vehicle.
Pardeep took them to Village Bakhtavarpur where Ikramudin met and they offered them juice spiked with sleeping pills.
After this, they reached at the tube well of Pardeep where the ceremony to meet with evil spirits was to be conducted.
"In the room of tube well, when both the ladies fainted due to sleeping pills, Pardeep and Ikrammudin strangled them with their chunni and wires.
After this in the night they both put both the deceased ladies in a pit in the fields, which had already been dug out by the accused persons," said the officer.
Pardeep was arrested and at his instance accused Ikramudin was also arrested, police said.
Later on during the course of investigation, at the instance of accused Pardeep and Ikramudin dead bodies of Geeta and Indrawati were recovered from the fields on July 7.
After this Sudesh was interrogated who also confessed her crime, police said.
Sudesh disclosed that deceased Indrawati and Geeta had landed property worth about Rs 6 crore.
Sudesh made a plan to eliminate Indrawati and Geeta Devi so that their share of property would come to her children," said Singh.
