Valentine’s Week’s romantic vibe was brutally upended in Ranchi with a heinous double-act murder. A vengeful couple slew the woman’s married boyfriend, castrated and beheaded him, then tossed the torso into the Kanchi River—a crime that has petrified Sonahatu locals.
Domadiah residents last saw 25-year-old Harihar Mahato on January 31 dusk. His mutilated body washed up February 8, evoking revulsion. Culprits excised his head to obscure recognition and ravaged genitals in grotesque vengeance.
Digging deeper, authorities nabbed Sulochana Devi and Chatrapati Mahato via CDR analysis. Their two-year tryst with Harihar infuriated Chatrapati, prompting a lethal scheme. Sulochana decoyed Harihar riverside; her husband pounced armed. United in slaughter, they later diced the body for disposal.
Detained and under fire, the pair’s full confession is awaited. Harihar, wed with a toddler, leaves a devastated household. Domadiah buzzes with fury, pressing for accomplices’ exposure.
Such scandals plague Ranchi repeatedly. On January 24, Doranda’s Taukir Ansari shot infidelity-accused wife Taranum Parveen dead, then hanged himself. Officials decry the surge in affair-driven homicides, advocating counseling and crackdowns.