Suspecting Affair With Boss, Unemployed Man Kills Live-In Partner, Sleeps Beside Body For Two Days

Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh: In a horrific incident, a 32-year-old man strangled his 29-year-old live-in partner to death in Gayatri Nagar, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh on the night of June 27. The man also slept beside her body after wrapping it in a blanket for two days. On June 29, the accused man, Sachin Rajpu, confessed the murder to his friend Anuj while being unstable after drunk.

Though Anuj didn’t believe him initially, Sachin’s repeated confessions raised suspicion and Anuj finally informed the police on June 30, Monday. As the police reached the rented house the couple were staying in, they found the woman’s decomposed body, still wrapped in the same blanket, lying on the bed as the accused described. Police then took Sachin into custody, and registered a murder case against him. An autopsy report is awaited to further ascertain the cause of death.

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Sachin and his partner, Ritika Sen, had been in a live-in relationship for three and a half years, and both had moved into the Gayatri Nagar residence around 9 months ago. However, while Ritika worked in a private company, Sachin was unemployed, and allegedly became suspicious of his live-in partner’s relationship with her boss.

The accused man had a heated argument with Ritika on the day of the horrific murder. Sachin, suspecting an affair between Ritika and her boss, strangled her to death in a fit of rage after the argument, NDTV reported.

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What followed was even more terrible, as the accused wrapped the victim’s body in a sheet and left it on bed. Sachin slept next to the body for two days, consuming alcohol due to fear and confusion.

“The woman is identified as Ritika Sen. She was living with her boyfriend, Sachin Rajput, who is married and has two children. On the night of June 27, the two had a fight. The fight escalated, and Sachin strangled her. He wrapped the body and continued staying in the same room. In a drunken state, he told his friend what he had done. “When the friend realized it wasn’t a joke, he informed the police,” NDTV quoted Shilpa Kaurav, Police station in-charge.