Chhattisgarh: Man Kills Wife Over Suspicion of Affair, Hides Chopped Body Parts in Water Tank for Weeks

A woman was allegedly killed by her husband on suspicion of having an extramarital affair, and her body chopped into several pieces was found in a water tank in their house in Chattisgarh’s Bilaspur, police said on Monday.

The victim, Sati Sahu, was killed by her husband, Pavan Thakur, some 1-2 months before her body parts were dumped in a water tank in his house in Uslapur, Bilaspur, police were quoted as saying by ANI.

According to Hindi daily Prabhat Khabar, Pawan Singh Thakur, a resident of the Chhattisgarh village of Takhatpur, wed Sati Sahu, who was from another caste. After marriage, the pair lived in a rented home in Uslapur, where they frequently quarrelled about suspicions of an extramarital affair.

Counterfeit Currency Tip-off

Bilaspur Superintendent of Police Santosh Singh told PTI that a raid at Thakur’s house was conducted by police’s anti-crime and cyber unit based on a tip-off about printing of counterfeit currency there.

According to the PTI report, the accused had allegedly strangled his wife Sati Sahu, 23 on January 6 suspecting her of infidelity, officials said. The police caught the accused near his house and recovered some counterfeit currency notes from his possession

The police recovered a colour printer, Xerox papers and counterfeit notes in the denomination of Rs 500 and 200.

Noticing a foul odour emanating from a room close to the bathroom, police recovered the body parts, wrapped in tape and polythene, from an empty water tank.

During questioning, Thakur revealed that he suspected his wife of having an extramarital affair and claimed that she was also interfering in the work of printing counterfeit currency.

“After killing his wife, the accused purchased a water tank and a cutter machine. He chopped the woman’s body into five parts and tried to set them ablaze. However, afraid that he might get caught due to the burning smell, he decided to conceal the remains in the water tank,” Singh said.

Officials said the couple’s two children were also later dropped by Thakur at his parent’s house in Takhatpur village in Bilaspur district.

According to the police, Thakur was arrested on the charges of murder and printing counterfeit currency notes.

The case is a chilling recall of the Shraddha Walkar murder case in which her 28-year-old live-in partner Aaftab Poonawala allegedly strangled sawing her body into 35 pieces. He was arrested after he kept them in a 300-litre fridge for almost three weeks at his residence in south Delhi’s Mehrauli before dumping them across the city.

Months after the sensational case, another similar case in the national capital was reported in which Sahil Gehlot was accused of killing his girlfriend, Nikki Yadav and stuffing her body into a fridge of his dhaba in southwest Delhi.

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