Live-in partner among 3 arrested in UPSC aspirant’s death case

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Three weeks aft a 32-year-old UPSC aspirant’s charred assemblage was recovered aft a occurrence successful northbound Delhi’s Timarpur, the Delhi Police arrested 3 people, including the deceased’s live-in partner, successful transportation with the alleged murder. 

According to the police, Amrita Chauhan (21) allegedly planned with her ex-boyfriend aft the deceased refused to delete her backstage videos helium had stored connected a hard disk. The 3rd idiosyncratic successful the conspiracy was a communal friend.

On October 6, the Delhi Police received a PCR telephone alerting a occurrence astatine Timarpur’s Gandhi Vihar. From the spot, the rescuers recovered a charred assemblage and the deceased was identified arsenic Ram Kesh Meena (32), a UPSC aspirant. 

Subsequently, Meena’s household lodged a complaint, and upon investigation, the constabulary recovered CCTV footage showing 2 persons, their faces covered, entering the gathering the nighttime earlier the fire. Some clip later, 1 of them exits the building, pursuing which a antheral and a pistillate were seen exiting the building. The constabulary identified the pistillate arsenic Amrita Chauhan, Ram Kesh’s live-in partner. 

“As per the CCTV footage, the occurrence broke retired soon aft they near the gathering and Amrita’s phone’s CDR confirmed that she was adjacent Ram Kesh’s level astatine the clip of the incident,” said a elder Delhi Police officer. Following this, the constabulary zeroed successful connected the main accused’s determination and arrested her. 

During interrogation, she identified the co-accused, her ex-boyfriend, Sumit Kashyap, and a friend, Sandeep Kumar. While Sumit was arrested connected October 2, Sandeep was arrested connected October 23.

“Amrita met Ram Kesh successful May this year, and they started a relationship, pursuing which they moved successful unneurotic astatine the Gandhi Vihar flat. During this time, Ram Kesh recorded backstage videos of Amrita and stored them connected a hard disk,” the constabulary said. 

The accused allegedly told the constabulary that she asked him to delete the recordings but helium avoided the taxable and did not delete the videos. “Following this, Amrita confided successful her ex-boyfriend Sumit, who helped her crippled Meena’s execution successful a mode that looks similar a occurrence accident,” the serviceman said.

Sumit, who utilized to enactment successful LPG distribution, helped Amrita to recognize however overmuch clip a cylinder would instrumentality to explode, and the premier accused, being a forensics student, helped the duo to program the alleged murder, said the police. 

According to the police, connected October 5, Sumit and Sandeep thrashed Ram Kesh and choked him to death. “They past poured oil, ghee and vino connected the assemblage to substance the fire, pursuing which Sumit pulled retired the state cylinder from the room and placed it adjacent Ram Kesh’s head. The knob was turned, and state started filling the room. The accused had already taken Ram Kesh’s 2 laptops, the hard disk, and different belongings,” the serviceman said. Sumit past ignited the occurrence utilizing a lighter and locked the main door, the constabulary learnt during interrogation. 

About an hr later, aft the 3 near the spot, the cylinder exploded, they told the police. 

The constabulary person recovered the hard disk that contained objectionable videos and photographs of the accused, and different belongings of Ram Kesh, on with the mobile phones of the accused. 

Published - October 28, 2025 01:38 americium IST

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