Lucknow: Deoria police have arrested a private school manager for allegedly strangling a 27-year-old woman teacher with whom he was in a relationship after she pressed him to marry her, keeping her body in his car’s boot for hours before dumping it near a school and fleeing, officials said.
The accused, Vijay Nishad (38) was produced before a court on Tuesday and remanded to judicial custody. The woman was identified as Rani Vishwakarma (27) a teacher at the same private school where Nishad served as manager. On a complaint by her father, Subhash Chandra Vishwakarma, an FIR was registered at Rudrapur police station under Sections 103(1) (murder) and 238 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
Police said the sequence of events was reconstructed from his confession during interrogation after his arrest late Monday. Police said Nishad, who is married and has two children, and Rani developed a close relationship while working together. Investigators said Rani had been urging him to marry her, which allegedly led to frequent conflict. Afterwards, police said, he hid the body in the boot and drove through multiple areas while waiting for darkness.
He allegedly smashed her mobile phone and discarded the handset, its cover and her ATM card between Bankat and Berahi before dumping the body near the school. Police arrested him near Nibahi turn on Rudrapur road and recovered the car and other items.
The case surfaced on Oct 31 around 8.30 pm, when police received information that a man had thrown a woman’s body from a Maruti WagonR near Shrineth Global School in the Rudrapur area and escaped, according to investigators. Superintendent of Police Abhijit R Shankar reached the spot and formed teams to identify the victim and trace the vehicle and suspect.