Accused in ex-minister kin murder held

Raipur

police arrested a 35-year-old man who was accused as mastermind in the murder of a Chhattisgarh ex-Minister ’s daughter-in-law and granddaughter on Friday. Two persons were arrested earlier. Ajay Rai (35), a resident of Saddu locality in Raipur, was caught in Ayodhya district in Uttar Pradesh and brought to Raipur, Senior Superintendent of Raipur police Ajay Kumar Yadav said. He had been at large since the bodies of Neha Dhritlahre (30) and her daughter Ananya (9) were found in a box of the wooden bed in a room of their house in Shankar Nagar in Raipur a week ago.

Neha was the wife of Tarun Dhritlahre, the son of the late DP Dhritlahre, who was a Minister in the Ajit Jogi-led Congress government in 2000-03.