A 26-year-old man allegedly strangled his 52-year-old lover after she demanded loan repayment and marriage. The victim used Instagram filters to hide her real age.
A 26-year-old man from Uttar Pradesh’s Mainpuri district allegedly killed his lover, double his age, for pressuring him to marry her and return the loan he took from her. As per the police, the man strangled the victim with her dupatta.
Accused, Arun Rajpoot, befriended a 52-year-old woman on Instagram and after chatting for 1.5 years, they exchanged numbers. The woman allegedly used Instagram filters to appear younger.
2 months ago, they met each other for the first time at a hotel in Farrukhabad. When Rajpoot saw the victim, he was stunned as she appeared much older. She told him that her age was 52. Rajpoot didn’t act on it and conspired to take money from her. He took a loan of almost Rs 1.5 lakh from her.
The victim asked for loan repayment after Rajpoot refused to marry her.
Rajpoot got miffed by the continuous pressure and planned to murder the woman. He called her to Mainpuri and strangled her to death with her dupatta. He pulled out the SIM card from her mobile and got rid of it. He left the body in the bushes.
Police Performed Last Rites
The woman’s abandoned body was found by the police on August 11 near Kharpari Rajbaha in the Kotwali area of Mainpuri. A mobile phone was also found near the body. When the body could not be identified, the police registered it as abandoned and cremated it. However, the police had sent the photo of the woman to all the police stations of the district and the surrounding districts.
