Engineer caught with body in car boot, arrested

Jamshedpur | Friday | 11th February, 2022

Summary:

Jamshedpur, Feb 11 (PTI) A junior engineer was arrested here after he was caught moving around in a car in the early hours of Friday with a body stuffed in a cricket kit bag and kept in the boot, police said.

Police has taken away the body, East Singhbhum senior superintendent of police M Tamil Vanan said.

The SSP said the engineer confessed during interrogation that the body was that of a moneylender, who was a resident of Kasidih locality here and had visited his residence, where none of his family members were present, with a woman on Thursday afternoon.

But soon two persons, including the woman"s husband, arrived and an altercation took place with the moneylender.

During the quarrel one of the two men picked up a cricket bat and hit the moneylender injuring him fatally, he confessed.

The SSP said the engineer claimed that he had agreed to dispose the moneylender"s body as the two men threatened him.