To cover up one murder, man goes on to kill 9 more

To cover up one murder, man goes on to kill 9 more

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Hyderabad:26.05.2020

To cover up a murder he had committed in March, a 24-year-old native of Bihar killed nine others, the bodies of whom were found floating in a well in Warangal last week. The accused, Sanjay Kumar Yadav, was arrested on Monday. Warangal police commissioner V Ravinder said Sanjay carried out the murders to cover up the killing of his live-in partner Rafiqa, who was related to six members of the family whose bodies were found in the well.

Apart from the six, two other men from Bihar and another from Tripura who worked at the same gunny bag making unit as Rafiqa’s kin, also had the food and fell unconscious. Sanjay, who has been living in Warangal for the last six years, mixed around 60 sleeping pills in the food taken by the victims. After they fell unconscious, he dragged each one of them and pushed them into an abandoned agricultural well on May  21. The well is located on the premises of the gunny bag manufacturing unit.

Sanjay in his confession said that he murdered the nine people after Rafiqa’s aunt, Nisha, threatened to complain to cops about her missing niece, whom he had killed on March 6. Sanjay had taken Rafiqa to West Bengal to meet her family. While returning, he gave her butter milk laced with sedatives, strangulated her and pushed her out of a moving train in Andhra Pradesh.

“He killed Rafiqa because she came to know about him getting closer to her daughters from an earlier marriage,” a police official said. On May 20, Sanjay reached Nisha’s place and chatted with her family before mixing sleeping pills in the food being cooked.