Police in Koderma, Jharkhand, have apprehended two suspects in connection with the murder of a woman, with the investigation pointing to a motive of revenge linked to an extramarital affair.
Police have arrested two persons for their alleged involvement in the murder of a woman in Jharkhand's Koderma district, an officer said.
Koderma Superintendent of Police (SP), Kumar Shivashish, told reporters on Saturday that revenge arising out of an illicit affair of the deceased woman's husband, Shambhu Rana, with another woman was the prime motive behind the murder.
"Based on technical and scientific evidence, we started interrogating the two suspects, Rohit Rana and Devanti Devi, and later they confessed to having throttled 30-year-old Neha Raj and then slitting her throat on Thursday while there was no one in the house," the SP said.
Police also said that the husband of Neha Raj had an extramarital affair with Devanti Devi, who happened to be his relative and had allegedly forcibly raped her.
"When the accused woman's husband came to know about it, he plotted the murder of Shambhu Rana's wife to teach him a lesson and was helped in the crime by his wife," the police official informed.
Police have also recovered the knife used in the crime, the blood-stained clothes worn by the accused and the bike used by them.
"The accused woman has also lodged a case of rape against the deceased woman's husband, and we had to take Shambhu Rana into custody. All three persons have been remanded to judicial custody," the police said.