Man who killed partner in MP, posted video online held: Cops
BHOPAL/JABALPUR: The Madhya Pradesh police on Saturday arrested a 35-year-old man who allegedly killed his girlfriend and then posted a video with her body on social media earlier this month, officers familiar with the matter said.
Police identified the accused as Hemant Rajendra Badane, a resident of Maharashtra’s Nasik, and said he was wanted in 37 cases of cheating and theft. Police tracked his cash withdrawals from ATMs and arrested him from Rajasthan’s Ajmer, officers said. “We used fingerprints taken from the crime scene, and used National Automated Fingerprint Identification System to trace him. The fingerprints matched with an accused in a property offence of 2014 that took place in Nasik. His photograph was matched and his identity was revealed,” said Jabalpur additional director general of police, Umesh Joga said.
“He was continuously changing his location. On Thursday, he withdrew ₹20,000 from an ATM in Ajmer. He was arrested with the help of Rajasthan police on Friday and brought to Jabalpur on Saturday, ” he said.
According to the police, Shilpa Jharia (22), a resident of Jabalpur, was found dead inside a resort’s room on November 8. The accused, who identified himself as Abhijeet Patidar ( a fictitious name), posted a video in which he is seen saying “bewafai nahi karne ka” (do not be unfaithful), with the woman lying in a pool of blood on a bed.
A day later, the accused posted another video in which he admitted that he killed the woman after his business partner Jitendra Kumar told him that she was also in a relationship with him, police said.
“When police detained Jitendra Kumar, he said he did not know the woman,” Laxman Singh Jharia, in-charge, Tilwara police station earlier said. HT could not independently verify the authenticity of the videos.
“The accused said Shilpa used to meet with other men too so he killed her,” said Jabalpur SP Siddharth Bahuguna.