Man chops up body of live-in partner after strangling her to death in Jharkhand’s Khunti

Man allegedly strangles live-in partner, chops body into pieces in Jharkhand forest, arrested after dog finds remains.

A 25-year-old man, who works as a butcher, allegedly strangled to death his live-in partner and chopped her body into several pieces in a forested area in Jharkhand’s Khunti district, police said.

The accused, identified as Naresh Bhengra, has been arrested.

The matter came to light almost a fortnight after the killing when a stray dog was found with human body parts near Jordag village in Jariagarh police station area on November 24.

Bhengra was in a live-in relationship with the deceased, a 24-year-old woman from the same district, in Tamil Nadu for the past couple of years. Sometime back, he returned to Jharkhand, got married to another woman without telling his partner and went back to the southern state without his wife to join her.

"The brutal incident occurred on November 8 when they reached Khunti as the accused who had married another woman did not wish to take her home. Instead, he took her to a forest near his house at Jordag village in Jariagarh police station and chopped the body into pieces. The man has been arrested," Khunti SP Aman Kumar told PTI on Wednesday.

Inspector Ashok Singh, who investigated the case, said the man worked in a butcher shop in Tamil Nadu and was an expert in slicing chicken.

“He admitted about chopping the body parts of the woman into 40 to 50 pieces before leaving those in the forest for wild animals to feast on. The police recovered several parts on November 24 after a dog in the area was seen with a mutilated human hand," Mr. Singh told PTI.