It is believed that he was murdered by crushing his head with stones and beating him with sticks and bottles. The way the body has been hidden, it seems that the number of murderers may be more than one. The police sent the body to the medical college at around 3 pm and got the post-mortem done. Priyal Jain did the post mortem. After this the body was handed over to the relatives.
By Navodit Saktawat
Published Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2025 05:33:37 PM (IST)
Updated Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2025 05:35:46 PM (IST)
Naiduniya Representative, Ratlam. A young man was murdered near a culvert on village Rajapura Mataji-Kelkachh road in Shivgarh police station area. After this, an attempt was made to hide the body by placing it in a pipe under the culvert and placing many stones on top of it. It is not known who committed the murder and why. The police is investigating the matter
According to the information, between 8 and 9 am on Tuesday morning, someone saw the dead body of a person lying in a pipe installed to flow water under the culvert under the culvert located on Kelkachh Road, about one kilometer away from Rajapura Mataji. A large number of stones were kept over the dead body. Someone informed Tolibai, the watchman of village Rajapura Mataji. Tolibai informed at Shivgarh police station. After this, police officers like ASP Rakesh Khakha, FSL officer Dr. Atul Mittal, Ratlam Rural SDOP Kishore Patanwala, SI RC Khadiya of Shivgarh police station reached the spot and investigated the incident. After this, the dead body was removed by removing the stones. A crowd of villagers had gathered on the spot. The relatives of the deceased had also reached there. He identified the deceased as 45 year old Devilal Katara, son of Prabhu Katara, resident of village Devipada. Police found blood stained stones, a piece of wood and a broken beer bottle from the incident site.
went to work eight days ago
Mohan Katara, younger brother of deceased Devi Lal Katara and other relatives told that Devi Lal used to do farming and labour. Eight days ago, he had gone with his niece, 15-year-old Sonu, to a farmer’s field in village Naharpura to work as a laborer for picking onions. He was there since then. He came to village Rajapura Mataji with Sonu on the afternoon of 19th January and told his niece to go home, he will come back after getting his beard shaved. After this, niece Sonu had gone to her maternal grandfather’s house, located about three kilometers away from Rajapura. Even after a long time, Devi Lal Katara did not reach home, so I called him but he did not receive the call. He had two phones. His phone has not been found. The phones have been thrown somewhere or taken away by the murderers. He had no enmity with anyone. We don’t know how many killed him.
The dog went 700 meters away
Police also called dog squad on the spot. Dak came out from the place where the body was kept under the culvert, roamed around and stopped near another culvert located about 700 meters away from there. It is believed that the murderers might have fled towards the other culvert. According to the police, the matter is being investigated.
