Chhattisgarh Police Crack Murder Case After 10 Years; 2 Arrested

The victim, Lekhram Sen, 40, a resident of Kosrangi village in Chhattisgarh, was killed in January 2011 at Farhada village in the district, he said.

Police have cracked a 10-year-old murder case after an accused during a casual conversation with a friend told him that he had killed a man in Raipur in 2011, an official said on Sunday. After getting the lead, the police on Friday arrested the main accused, identified as Santosh Yadav alias Ghanshyam, 30, and his associate Lokesh Yadav, 32, Additional Superintendent of Police (Rural) Tarkeshwar Patel said. The victim, Lekhram Sen, 40, a resident of Kosrangi village in Chhattisgarh, was killed in January 2011 at Farhada village in the district, he said. Santosh Yadav, during a conversation recently with a friend at a ''dhaba'' (roadside eatery) in Farhada village, told him that he killed Lekhram Sen in 2011, following which the police got a whiff of it and rounded him up a few days back.