I-T inspector held for killing wife, burying her body

JAIPUR: The Jaipur police on Sunday recovered the body of a 23-year-old woman who was allegedly murdered by her husband, an inspector with the income tax (I-T) department, on April 12 and buried her body on the premises of a rented house in Vadodara.

“The body was buried about 6-7 feet deep in the ground. It is still intact and will be sent for a post-mortem,” said Kavendra Singh Sagar, assistant commissioner of police, Malaviya Nagar.

The body was unearthed by a team of Jaipur police from the Vadodara house a day after the police cracked the mystery which has given the cops sleepless nights for over 10 days.

Munesh Foujdar had gone missing on April 11 and a missing person report was lodged by her father-in-law on April 12, the police said. Lokesh Choudhary, Munesh’s husband, who worked in Vadodara, came to Jaipur on April 13 and started pressuring the police to find his wife, said Krishna Kumar Meena, sub inspector (SI) at Gandhi Nagar police station.

“On Lokesh’s suggestion that his wife has been abducted by bike-borne men, we obtained the CCTV footage from the area. We spent three days tracking everyone who looked even a little suspicious but no clue leading to the woman emerged,” said the SI.

“Munesh’s roommate then told us that they had gone out to have fruit juice on April 11 evening when she received a call from her husband.”

Lokesh told her that both their lives were in danger and she should immediately switch off her phone and come with a friend of his to Vadodara, Munesh’s roommate told the police.