Boyfriend held for killing Guwahati college student
The college girl, whose charred body was recovered by the police in Guwahati two days ago, was murdered by her boyfriend, the police claimed on Wednesday.
City police commissioner Hiren Nath said that the girl’s boyfriend — Govind Singhal — who, along with his mother and sister is in custody, has confessed to the crime.
The charred body of Sweta Agarwal ( 20) was recovered from the bathroom of the rented house of Govind ( 21) on December 4 last.
While referring confession of the accused student, Mr Nath said that the two, who were romantically involved, had got into an argument and in a fit of rage, Govind had pushed Sweta towards the wall, which proved fatal for her.
The two were alone in the house at that time, but Govind’s mother and sister were present when he tried to burn her body.
Before setting her body on fire, Govind tried to carry it on his motorcycle to throw it into a stream, but failed to do so as there were people around. Then he brought back the body and burnt it with kerosene inside the lavatory, from where the police later recovered the charred body.
Citing Govind’s the police commissioner said his mother and sister were not at home when Shweta was murdered but accompanied him in setting the body afire. He said the police were trying to corroborate the confession of all three to join the dots.
The commissioner said that Govind and Shweta were having an affair since May 2016 and the girl used to visit his place though her family was not aware of this. Govind confessed that Shweta had been pressing him to meet her family for marriage as Govind’s family was planning to soon shift to Siliguri, but Govind was unrelenting, that led to the altercation.