Finance
Dehradun: Dehradun police have arrested a Lieutenant Colonel in the Army, who had spotted a Nepali woman at a dance bar in West Bengal’s Siliguri, brought her to the hill state, and murdered her. They solved the murder within 24 hours after discovering a woman’s body in a suspicious condition in the Sirwal Garh locality on Monday.
The woman was from Nepal and lived in Siliguri, the police found out in their investigation.
Ramendu Upadhyay, posted at Clement Town cantonment area, allegedly killed the 30-year-old woman with whom he was in an extramarital relationship after she started pressuring him to marry her, police said. He was arrested from his house in Panditwari Prem Nagar.
The victim, Shreya Sharma, had met the accused at a dance bar in Siliguri, after which their affair continued for three years. When he was transferred to Dehradun, he brought Shreya with him to Dehradun where he took a flat on rent for her, he confessed during interrogation, police said.
Upadhyay had alcohol with the woman at a club on Rajpur Road on Saturday night and offered to take her on a long drive to which she agreed. However, after reaching Thano Road, a desolate place on the outskirts of the city, at around 1:30 am, he parked the car and hit the woman repeatedly on the head with a hammer until she died, police said. They said Upadhyay dumped Shreya’s body along the roadside and drove away, adding that the army officer was already married and Shreya was pressuring him to marry her.
