A tale of forbidden love gone fatally wrong has gripped Jharkhand, where a 35-year-old woman eliminated her lover—her own cousin’s husband—in a chilling act of vengeance. The dramatic confrontation stemmed from Shankar Nayak’s impending marriage to another, shattering Geeta Devi’s dreams of a future together after three years of secret romance.
Their bond formed post Shankar’s parental loss, as Geeta stepped in to run his home. When whispers of his wedding reached her, fury took over. With husband Baldev Machhua’s complicity, she poisoned tea served to Shankar during a visit, sealing his fate.
Rushed to Jamshedpur hospital, Shankar breathed his last amid desperate medical efforts. Prompt police response to brother Sukra’s FIR, under Bundu SDPO’s guidance, nabbed the culprits using tech intel. Their minor daughter figures in the case too.
Echoing this horror, another couple in Sonahatu executed a savage murder merely two days prior: Harihar Mahato’s decapitated, mutilated corpse was found riverside, courtesy of his affair partner Sulochana and her husband. As illicit liaisons fuel murders in Ranchi’s rural belts, police vow intensified probes and preventive measures to stem the tide of such blood-soaked betrayals.