Patna:
Police in neighbouring Jharkhand state have arrested a doctor who killed his girlfriend and then stuffed her body in a suitcase before fleeing the scene. The brutal incident took place in Jamshedpur town of Jharkhand on Saturday.
Police said the doctor, identified as Dr Mirza Rafiq who worked at a private hospital in Kolkata in neighbouring West Bengal, had fallen in love with the woman Chaynika Kumari, 29, from Jharkhand. She was working as a manager in a private hospital in Jamshedpur town.
According to the police, both they were in a relationship for more than three years. Of late differences had cropped up between them as the doctor suspected her of loving someone else.
On Friday night when she visited him at his hotel room in Jamshedpur, they had a quarrel and in a fit of rage, the doctor strangulated her to death with an iron chain in his hotel room in Jamshedpur. The doctor was staying in the hotel for the past three days, police said.
Reports said after committing the crime, the doctor locked his room and bought a big suitcase. Subsequently, he stuffed her body in it and dumped it outside the local railway station. He then fled from the place, but was later arrested.
“Initially he feigned ignorance about the whereabouts of the girl but later confessed to killing her and stuffing her body in a suitcase,” the local senior superintendent of police, Jamshedpur, Anoop Mathew, told the media today. The police official said the relations between the two strained in recent months over doctor’s suspicion that she was having affairs with another man.
It was the woman who had called her doctor boyfriend to the town to join her birthday celebrations. Her birthday was on November 2.
Police said during the time when her doctor boyfriend stayed in the hotel, she would leave her home during the office hours and spent the whole day with him at the hotel room. She would leave in the evening so that her family never suspected her.
As per reports, they met while working at a hospital in Dumdum areas of Kolkata, where they fell in love. Later both left the institutes and joined other hospitals.
