Nagpur: Suraj Sahu, 23, learnt to have planned the murder of 15-year-old Raj Pandey after he was twice shown his mother’s objectionable image, clicked by victim’s kin, on the cellphone.
The revelation came to fore through sources a day after Sahu had kidnapped and murdered Pandey, whose body was found in the forest near Salai Godhni on Friday.
Sahu and his mother were learnt to be threatened with dire consequences if he did not snap ties with the victim’s relative.
Sahu’s mother was threatened and humiliated by the Pandeys when he was in hospital.
The Pandeys, on Saturday, had thronged the MIDC police station demanding justice.
The cops conducted the crime scene recreation for evidence with Sahu at different places.
After having abducted Pandey from Indiramata Nagar luring with an invitation to participate in a cricket tournament, Sahu had taken him to Salai Godhni where he murdered him.
Sahu was also demanding to see Pandey’s family members send him picture of the victim’s uncle, Manoj, after severing his head.
He was assuring to let Pandey go after seeing the head of Manoj being severed.
Already aggrieved by his separation with a relative of Pandey with whom Sahu had a love relation for seven years, a source stated that the alleged perpetrator had decided to teach the victim’s family a lesson after he was twice humiliated by showing his mother’s image on the cellphone.
As per a source at Indiramata Nagar where Pandeys stayed, some tension was going on between Sahu and victim’s family.
Sahu too wanted to see Pandey’s head being severed as a revenge of humiliation to mother and also forcibly sending his ladylove to Uttar Pradesh.
As per Sahu’s interrogation replies, the Pandeys had clicked some photographs of his mother which he was shown through his ladylove when he had been admitted to a hospital after an accident.
Later, he was shown the same photograph at a barber’s shop on a later date by a relative of Pandey in front of others.
Enraged by repeated humiliations and also threatening of serious consequences, he decided to eliminate Pandey who would be a soft target for him.