West Bengal Police arrested the boyfriend of 26-year-old Anjali Sau outside Delhi’s Anand Vihar railway station on Friday morning in connection with her murder.
Police sources identified the main accused as Dharambir. A sub-inspector from the Baranagar police station led the successful arrest operation in the national capital.
Barrackpore Deputy Commissioner of Police Kuntal Banerjee stated that officers are bringing the accused back from Delhi on Friday. Investigators will reveal more details after interrogating him.
Police recovered Sau’s body from a residential flat in a five-storey housing cooperative in Baranagar on the night of November 10.
Officers found the body lying down with visible injury marks. Initially, the exact cause of the young woman’s death remained a mystery to the authorities.
Sau’s sister and brother-in-law had lived in that flat for four years. Currently, her brother-in-law resides in Hooghly’s Sreerampore and visits the flat occasionally.
Sau lived in the nearby Dunlop area and stayed at the Baranagar flat periodically. On Monday, her brother-in-law left the flat keys with a neighbour.
On the afternoon of November 10, Sau collected the keys from the neighbour and entered the apartment alone.
Following the body’s discovery, Sau’s relatives told police they suspected her boyfriend’s involvement. Dharambir had been absconding since the incident came to light.
Investigators tracked mobile tower locations and used confidential sources to trace Dharambir from Kolkata to Delhi. A special police team subsequently travelled there and apprehended him.
Police suspect Dharambir visited Sau at the flat due to their previous acquaintance.
Investigators are now probing the exact motive behind this brutal murder. They are determining whether a personal grudge or another hidden mystery drove the crime.
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