By IANS
Raipur : Two students have been arrested for allegedly stabbing a woman to death after she refused to pay them Rs.1 million in Chhattisgarh’s Korba district, the police said Friday.
Shivshankar Shukla, 20, a student of the Bhilai Institute of Technology, Durg, and his 19-year-old friend T. Tejaswani, who is also an IT student of that institute, were arrested Thursday night from a railway station in Champa, Chhattisgarh, just two hours after they allegedly stabbed a woman in Korba town, some 220 km north of capital Raipur, the police said.
“Both the accused took hostage a 37-year-old woman, Sadhna, wife of Korba municipal corporation sub-engineer K.P. Gupta, at her residence Thursday,” Himanshu Gupta, Korba district superintendent of police, told reporters Friday.
“The boy’s family was known to the victim’s family, and after a chat with her, they tied her hands to a chair and demanded Rs.1 million. She was alone at home at that time,” the police officer said.
When Sadhna said she had no money with her, Shukla allegedly stuffed her mouth with a piece of cloth and stabbed her repeatedly until she succumbed to her injuries, Gupta said.
“After killing the lady, both the accused ransacked the house in search of money. Failing to find anything, the duo fled from the city. But within two hours they were trapped by the police at Champa railway station when they were about to board a train,” the official added.
The police said Tejaswini needed Rs.1 million for her studies and asked Shukla to arrange the money. When he failed to do so, she asked him to mastermind the dangerous plot to raise the amount, the police alleged.