Killer of his 3 sons strikes again, murders woman, jumps before train in Bhopal

In Bhopal, Pritam Kushwaha, jailed earlier for axing his three sons to death, murdered 50-year-old woman who had sheltered him, stabbing her at an under-construction house. He died by suicide under a train, exposing a chilling past, broken trust, and a crime that shocked the city deeply.

A man who had already served 18 years in jail for murdering his three sons in Madhya Pradesh, struck again, this time killing a woman who had given him shelter, before dying by suicide under a train.

The victim, 50-year-old Durga, was stabbed to death in the Bhopal’s Gautam Nagar area by her gurubhai (fellow-disciple) and relative Pritam Kushwaha, who had been living in her house for nearly a year after being released from prison.

Police said the murder took place inside Durga’s under-construction house in Gautam Nagar. Kushwaha allegedly took her there on the pretext of cleaning and then attacked her repeatedly with a sharp weapon, inflicting multiple wounds to her chest and abdomen.

Investigators believe the crime was triggered by tensions between the two. Durga had reportedly been pressuring him for the past six months to vacate the house, angering the accused.

Police Station in-charge Mahendra Singh Thakur said Kushwaha, a native of Tendukheda, had earlier been convicted for killing his three sons with an axe and had completed an 18-year sentence. After his release last year, he was socially ostracised in his village, and Durga had given him refuge in Bhopal.

He had been earning by running a vegetable cart and had sold it just two days before the crime, a detail now under police scrutiny.