Army officer nabbed in Assam over murder of Chennai woman
The Hindu
A pendant acquired from a Coimbatore temple led to the arrest of the officer from Haryana
GUWAHATI
The Assam Police have arrested an Army officer from Haryana for allegedly murdering a married woman from Tamil Nadu.
A pendant found on the body of the woman, acquired from a temple in Coimbatore, led to the arrest of Lt. Col Amrinder Singh Walia, police said.
The officer is attached to the Army’s 4 Corps headquarters in eastern Assam’s Tezpur as the Defence Public Relations Officer.
The body of the woman, identified as that of 36-year-old Vandhana Shree from Chennai, was found in a plastic bag, off the national highway in Kamrup district’s Changsari, about 23 km north of Guwahati.
“The Army officer was arrested from Tezpur on Friday night, produced before a local court today (Saturday) and sent to judicial custody,” Kamrup’s Superintendent of Police, Hitesh Chandra Roy told The Hindu on Saturday.
Deputy Inspector-General (Central-Western Range) Brajenjit Singha, who supervised the police investigation, said his team followed the only clue — a rectangular silver pendant with an engraved image of a goddess — the deceased was wearing.
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