Prime accused of Aparna Karmakar rape and murder arrested

The murder mystery of a woman identified as Aparna Karmakar Ghosh (43), in which police recovered her body from a drain at tri-junction area of Kalyani and Water Supply road under East Agartala police station on October 12 afternoon, the Agartala city police has arrested prime accused and two other persons on suspicious ground.

Giving details of the latest improvement of police investigation, SDPO(Sadar) Ajoy Kumar Das during a press briefing at East Agartala police station on Friday evening said that soon after the identity establishment of the deceased woman body as Aparna Karmakar Ghosh (43), wife of Dipak Kumar Ghosh of Chittaranjan area under same police station, her daughter Dwapanita Ghosh filed an FIR at East Agartala women police station with complaint that her mother might be raped and murder.

He said that police registering the case , started massive investigation and based on the circumstantial and scientific evidences, initially police detained two persons including the paramour of the deceased woman, who was a group-D government employee posted at MBB College library and another suspected accused persons. During interrogation of both detained persons, the police team getting no satisfactory answer from them, were arrested and police before a local court with police remand appeals. Later, the court sent them in police custody.

While analyzing the CCTV footage of the crime spot, police identified that a person was seen , who was moving with that deceased woman in Scotty. Analyzing the information, police identified that person as Satya Ranjan Ghosh of Devendra Chandra Nagar village of Lembucherra area of West Tripura district and in association with police personnel of Mohanpur subdivision, police on Friday morning managed to arrest him from his house.

SDPO Das said during interrogation suspected prime accused Satya Ranjan Ghosh revealed that when he returned to his house through Kalyani area from his friend's house on October 11 night, he spotted the deceased woman. After primary discussion, the woman wanted to drink wine and accused Satya Ranjan moved through his Scotty with that woman in city areas and returned back to the same spot.

Later, accused raped and dumped the woman in the drain water to ascertain her death, said SDPO Das.

He said that based on confessional statement made by prime accused police will produced him in a court citing police remand to unearth the entire murder scene.

It may be recalled here that on Wednesday afternoon at about 2 PM some pedestrians passing through the tri-junction area of Kalyani and Water Supply road noticed a floating body of the woman in the drain. Police team from East Agartala police station rushed to the spot and they also brought the forensic team to collect evidence. Police recovered the body and shifted to GB Hospital morgue.

During the investigation process, police identified the body as Aparna Karmakar Ghosh (43), wife of one e-rickshaw driver Dipak Kumar Ghosh of Chittaranjan area under same police station, who had eloped with a group-D employee of MBB College library on January last leaving her two daughters alone.

After she eloped with her paramour, her two daughters tried their best to return their mother to their family, but she did not return.