Youth hanged to death in Katihar village

PATNA: An 18-year-old Ranjeet Kumar Muni was thrashed and hanged from a tree allegedly by the family members of a girl with whom he had love affair. The incident took place between 1am and 2am on the outskirts of village Gopalpatti under Falka police station area in Katihar on Wednesday, SHO Sunil Kumar Mandal said.
Mandal said the body was spotted by villagers in the morning.“Ranjeet was thrashed mercilessly before being killed. He had injury marks of sticks and rods all over the body. After thrashing, the accused persons had hanged him to death from a tree,” he said.
Mandal said that Ranjeet’s father Dinesh Muni has lodged an FIR against three persons with whom he had enmity but their involvement in the case could not be ascertained yet.
Mandal said preliminary investigation revealed that Ranjeet had an affair with a girl from Gopalpatti village for the last six to seven months. “Police came to know that the girl’s family members had thrashed Ranjeet mercilessly before hanging him from a tree by using a plastic rope,” he said.
The SHO said body was handed over to the family after postmortem and raids were on to nab the suspected family members of the girl. They were evading arrest, he said.
The SHO said Ranjeet had food with his family at around Tuesday midnight after which he went out of his home. He said the family members told police that they didn’t know when Ranjeet went out of the house.