A 22-year-old man was arrested on Sunday in the Kamrup Rural district of Assam for allegedly murdering his girlfriend in a hotel room. Police reported that he used a sharp weapon to stab her and subsequently attempted to take his own life after the incident.
Police said, she reached Rangia from Chennai on Saturday and was in contact with her alleged boyfriend, Abhijit. Police said that Guriya arrived from Chennai on Saturday night along with two friends and Abhijit had gone to receive the three women at Rangia Railway Station. “When the police arrived at the hotel and knocked on the door, the accused opened it. He was soaked in blood.
Officers of Rangia Police Station said that a 23-year-old woman was found dead with injuries inside a hotel room near Rangia railway station on Sunday morning. The accused, identified as Abhijit Kindo, a resident of Udalguri district, was initially detained from the hotel room and later arrested after police registered a case against him under section 103(1) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) for murder. The deceased, identified as Malani Guriya (23), was a resident of Hugrajuli in Sonitpur district. The senior superintendent of police (SSP), Kamrup Rural, Subhashis Barua, said that the police received information about the alleged murder from the RPF inspector at Rangia railway station at around 6.12am, and a team immediately reached the hotel.
Police said the man was held from the same hotel room. The body of the victim was lying on the floor and the accused himself was bleeding,” Barua said. Following the initial investigation, the body was sent to Gauhati Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) for postmortem examination and the family members of the deceased were informed about the incident, police said.
“The accused allegedly assaulted the victim with a pair of scissors and a tester, resulting in her death.
He then informed her friends over the phone about the act and attempted suicide” Barua said.
