A man in his early twenties allegedly killed his friend, cut his body into pieces and threw them in three borewells and buried the remaining body in a cotton field at Muru village in Nakhatrana of Gujarat’s Kutch region, police said.
According to police, the accused, identified as Kishor Lakhamshi Maheshwari, along with a minor, killed his friend Ramesh Puja Maheshwari, 20.
Both Kishor and the minor were booked on Tuesday.
Police said the friends had an argument after Kishor allegedly sent a message to Ramesh’s girlfriend, who blocked the latter. The friends reached a compromise, later.
On December 2, when the duo were having dinner at the cotton field, the issue cropped up and Kishor hit Ramesh with a spade multiple times, killing him, police said.
Kutch (West) SP Vikas Sunda said in a statement: “On December 3, Rajesh Maheshwari lodged a missing persons complaint for his brother Ramesh, who had been missing for the previous 24 hours. Nakhatrana police launched a search for him.”
“During the search operation, several people were questioned and police recovered Ramesh’s phone from Kishor, making him a possible suspect. The two had also recently fought over a woman. During questioning, Kishor kept changing his statements,” Sunda said.
Explaining the sequence of events, Sunda said, “When Kishor messaged the woman who was in a relationship with Ramesh, she blocked Kishor, leading to an argument between the friends. They had then reached a compromise and had become friends again. However, Kishor was deeply affected by the incident and he invited Ramesh to his cotton field for dinner on December 2. They went on his bike and on the way, they met a minor, who was their common friend, and all three went to the farm.”
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“At the farm, the topic of the woman came up again, leading to another altercation. During this fight, Kishor hit Ramesh with a spade multiple times,” the SP said.
Speaking about the disposal of the body, murder weapons and other evidence, Sunda said, “As per Kishor’s confession, he cut Ramesh’s head and put it in borewell-1 and threw several rocks on top of it. He then cut both of Ramesh’s hands and threw them in borewell-2. In borewell-3, Kishor dumped the pickaxe and dagger used in the murder. He then collected the mud where Ramesh’s blood had spilled, filled it in a sack, and dumped it in an unused well on the premises in a bid to destroy evidence. He then dug a pit in the cottonfield and buried the torso and lower part of Ramesh’s body there.”
While the police were investigating the disappearance on December 4, Kishor gave the police the phone and “tried to mislead investigators”. However, constant questioning by PI AM Makwana of Nakhatrana police station, led to a breakthrough, leading to Kishor’s confession and the police finding the body parts.
Kishor was booked under BNS sections for murder and destruction of evidence and Section 135 of the GP Act. The minor was also booked.
