A harrowing and spine-chilling incident has surfaced from Washim district, where a father brutally took the life of his own married daughter. After committing this heinous murder, the accused went to great lengths to cover up his tracks by falsely claiming that his daughter had died of a sudden heart attack. To destroy all possible evidence, he hastily performed her last rites and disposed of her ashes by flowing them into a river. However, the sinister plot unravelled late at night when the Shirpur police received a confidential phone tip regarding the suspicious death, prompting immediate action and the subsequent detention of the victim's father, Santosh Maroti Gote.
Police Intervention and Investigation in Shirpur
According to available details, the case took a decisive turn when Shirpur police station in-charge Yogita Bharद्वाज received a confidential tip late at night. Acting swiftly on the information, the police initiated a thorough probe and took the deceased woman's father into custody. Authorities are currently piecing together all the circumstances surrounding the crime. As part of the ongoing investigation, the Shirpur police have deployed deep-sea divers into the Katepurna River to search for and recover the ashes that were disposed of by the accused to wipe out evidence. The exact motive behind the murder and other sequence of events will be officially revealed once the comprehensive police investigation reaches its conclusion.
Background of the Dispute and Victim Identity
The victim has been identified as Manisha Naikwad, whose marriage had previously taken place in a village located within Sengaon taluka of Hingoli district. Following marital discord and disputes, she had returned to live in her native village. Investigations indicate that a heated altercation erupted between the father and daughter around the time of Dussehra over her going to meet her boyfriend. Police sources state that the father strangled Manisha to death using a handkerchief in Brahmanwada under the Shirpur police station jurisdiction. To mask the murder from villagers, he circulated rumors that she suffered a fatal heart attack and proceeded to cremate her body immediately.
Parallel Attack Case Reported in Baghpat
In a similarly disturbing crime reported from Baghpat in Uttar Pradesh, a wife conspired with her lover to eliminate her husband. Located in Kotana village of Baghpat, the woman first mixed intoxicating pills into alcohol and fed it to her husband, following which she and her accomplice launched a brutal assault on his head using an empty bottle and broken glass shards. Local police successfully arrested the accused wife Urmila, while her alleged lover, Sikandar alias Kalu, was captured after sustaining a bullet wound to his leg during a police encounter.
