Alirajpur: Wife, four others arrested for murder of man, staged as road accident

A death in the Chandpur police station area of Madhya Pradesh's Alirajpur district, first taken to be a road accident, has turned out to be a murder after the post-mortem report and a police investigation. Police have arrested five accused, including the dead man's wife.

According to police, Dilip, son of Abesingh Vaskle, died in suspicious circumstances in Mordhi village on November 12, 2026. A case was initially registered at Chandpur police station on the assumption that it was a road accident. When the conditions at the spot appeared suspicious, police widened the investigation.

A panel of five doctors conducted the post-mortem at the district hospital. The preliminary post-mortem report gave strangulation as the cause of death. Police then began investigating the case as a murder.

The investigation found that Dilip's wife, Sengli, had been in a relationship for the previous four or five years with Ramesh, son of Moti, from the same village. Dilip had learnt of it, and the couple often quarrelled and came to blows over it. According to police, this led Sengli and Ramesh to plan to get rid of Dilip.

Police said that on the day of the incident, Sengli phoned Ramesh to say Dilip was heavily drunk. Ramesh then arrived with his associates Mahesh and Silдar. The three allegedly took Dilip to a pigeon pea field behind the house and strangled him with a yellow rope.

After the killing, the accused planned to make it look like a road accident. The body was placed on Dilip's scooter and taken near the Chandpur-Sakdi road. Dashariya and Nansingh also reached the spot. According to police, Dashariya drove a tractor back and forth, running it over the body and the scooter twice, so that the case would look like an accident. The accused then hid the tractor and went home.

During the investigation, police found a mobile phone at the scene. Technical analysis showed it belonged to Dashariya. Police took him into custody and questioned him, which revealed the conspiracy to murder and the roles of the other accused.

Police have arrested Sengli, Ramesh, Mahesh, Dashariya and Nansingh, alias Nanka. Another accused in the case, Sildar, son of Jurlia, is absconding, and police are searching for him.

Police have added BNS sections 103(1), 238, 61(2) and 3(5), relating to murder, destruction of evidence, criminal conspiracy and acts done by several persons in furtherance of a common intention. The investigation is continuing. Chandpur police station in-charge Sub-Inspector Dilip Singh Chandel and his team played a key role in the operation.