Ultadanga housewife murder: Hotel manager held from Jharkhand

Kolkata: One more person identified as Jaydev Yadav has been arrested in connection with the murder of Ultandanga housewife Archana Palangdar and her lover Balaram Keshri.

He was arrested on Saturday night and was brought to Kolkata and produced before a city court on Sunday. Jaydev has been remanded to police custody till December 27.

Sources informed that Jaydev used to be the manager of the hotel where Archana and Keshri stayed. After the murder case came to light, Jaydev

fled Kolkata.

During investigation, the sleuths came to know that both Archana and Keshri's body were removed from the hotel using an app cab.

An employee identified as Ashis Yadav loaded the bodies in the cab with assistance from two other people identified as Harihar Mahato and Yadu Prasad.

All of them were arrested during an investigation.

During interrogation of Ashis, the sleuths came to know about Jaydev's involvement. According to the sources, Jaydev being the manager of the hotel had asked Ashis to dispose of the bodies overnight.

Ashis then booked an app cab and did as he was directed by Jaydev.

On sensing danger, Jaydev vanished from Kolkata. After sleuths came to know about Jaydev's involvement, they tried to locate him but failed.

Recently, with the help of the mobile phone tower location tracking system, police got information that Jaydev was hiding in Jharkhand. A few days ago, police became sure of his location and sent a team to Jharkhand for arresting Jaydev.

On Saturday night, the police team successfully nabbed Jaydev and brought him to Kolkata.

Archana and Keshri were found dead inside a hotel room on September 19. Later, Archana's body was dumped in a canal near Chowbaga pumping station and Keshri's body was dumped at Nonadanga adjacent to Eastern Metropolitan (EM) Bypass.

On September 20, Archana's body was fished out of the canal and a few days after, police were able to recover Keshri's body.

Later, cops came to know about the New Market hotel where they had stayed. During an investigation, the sleuths arrested several persons connected to the hotel and came to know that Keshri murdered Archana over some conflict and committed suicide.

However, police are not believing the story narrated by them. It is expected that after Jaydev's interrogation, a detailed information related to the murder case would

be revealed.