- Thursday, February 27, 2025
According to reports, police officers from Jabalpur apprehended the accused, identified as Amit Sahu alias Pappu from the city, following a joint operation with their counterparts from Nagpur, a city in Maharashtra.
By: Shubham Ghosh
SANA Khan, chief of the minority wing of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the western state of Maharashtra, has been found to be murdered by her husband, police of Jabalpur, a city in the central state of Madhya Pradesh bordering Maharashtra revealed on Saturday (12).
According to reports, officers from Jabalpur apprehended the accused, identified as Amit Sahu alias Pappu from the city, following a joint operation with their counterparts from Nagpur, a city in Maharashtra.
Probe revealed that the accused, 37, was associated with a liquor-smuggling business and ran a roadside eatery near Jabalpur. He confessed to killing Khan and throwing her body into a river, the police added.
It is suspected that the murder took place over an argument over financial matters.
Khan was a resident of Nagpur, where the Hindu nationalist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh which is the ideological mentor to the BJP is located, went missing following a visit to Jabalpur earlier this month.
Her family alleged that the city in Madhya Pradesh was her last-known location where she had gone to meet her husband who she reportedly married in a court just four months ago. Khan was a member of the BJP’s minority cell.
Her family filed a complaint against her husband, suspecting that he was behind Khan’s disappearance.
Jabalpur’s additional superintendent of police Kamal Maurya said that the accused confessed that he had killed his wife by hitting her with a stick in the house and dumped her body into the nearby Hiran river from a bridge.
He also said that a search operation was underway to find the body in the river.
The police also suspect involvement of a third individual in the case and are trying to locate the person, Outlook reported.
