Kolkata woman killing: 3 suspects booked
Earlier on Saturday morning, body of a 22-year-old woman was found on a pavement at the crossing of Alimuddin Street and Ripon Street under Park Street Police Station limits in Kolkata.
After receiving her post-mortem's primary report, police confirmed that the woman was murdered.
Later on Sunday, the woman was identified as Soma Das, who was a resident of South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal and staying in Kolkata's Bortalla area.
After starting probe into the matter, police detained the manager of a hotel, in front of which woman's body was recovered, on Monday.
A senior official of Kolkata Police told IBNS, "We noticed several missing links in the statement of the hotel manager- Soumen Mitra- and detained him."
"After interrogating him, we came to know that the murder was committed inside the hotel and the woman, who was a sex worker, was killed by his partner, Rizhwanur," he further said.
Later on Monday, a woman staffer of the hotel, Kadbanu Bibi, and the prime suspect, Rizhwanur, was booked and the investigation almost came to an end, officials claimed.
"We have arrested the prime suspect in this case Rizhwanur, who has criminal records, from Bhawanipur area and during interrogation he accepted that he committed the crime," an official of Kolkata Police's homicide department told IBNS.
According to Kolkata Police records, Rizhwanur earlier completed 8 years imprisonment, after being charged for murder and several other crimes.
"During interrogation, Rizhwanur accepted that he had a physical relationship with the killed woman since last one month and he planned to kill her, as she was pressurizing him for marriage," the official said.
After committing the crime, Rizhwanur left the hotel and the hotel manager, who knew nothing about the murder, placed her body on the footpath after covering it by a blanket.
"Hotel manager and the woman staffer were not directly involved in the crime. They have been booked for plunging evidences and giving false statement to the police," an official told IBNS.
However, the modus operandi (method of the murder) has not been cleared completely so far.
The arrested persons are likely to be produced before a city court on Tuesday.
(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha)
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