A man in Haryana's Rohtak kidnapped his tenant and then buried him alive in a 7-foot deep pit in a field with the help of his friends after discovering that he was having an affair with his wife.
The murder of the man, Jagdeep, who was a yoga teacher, was carried out in December 2024 but the body was recovered on Monday after the police arrested the accused following a long investigation.
According to NDTV, Hardeep found out that Jagdeep, who lived as a tenant with him in a portion of his house and was a yoga teacher at the Baba Mastnath University in Rohtak, was allegedly having an affair with his wife.
He paid some people to dig a 7-foot deep pit in Pantavas village of Charkhi Dadri - telling them it was for a borewell. On December 24, Hardeep and some of his friends kidnapped Jagdeep - who was originally from Mandothi village in Jhajjar district after he returned from work. Jagdeep's hands and legs were tied and he was beaten up as the group took him to the pit in Charkhi Dadri.
The accused taped Jagdeep's mouth so that he couldn't make any noise and threw him in the pit, filling it with mud to bury him alive.
A missing person's report was filed a few days later. The police found no leads until they accessed Jagdeep's call records some time ago and found enough evidence to detain Hardeep and one of his friends, Dharampal, NDTV reported.
During interrogation, the two men revealed the chilling details of the crime.
The body was recovered on Monday, March 24, exactly three months after the murder.
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