Date October 13, 2021 and place Aligarh. A person named Tarun Agarwal reached his brother Arun’s house. Arun’s two children were with him, as Arun told that he was going out of town for work. When he opened the door and went inside, he was stunned and came out screaming. Inside the house, the body of Arun’s wife Aastha was hanging on the noose. On being informed about the incident, the police came and investigated.
Police interrogated and preliminary investigation revealed that there was some rift between Arun and Aastha, so Arun used to sleep in his factory. Arun’s family members also said that quarrel between husband and wife is common and then did not doubt anyone. Both the husband and wife earned well and were prosperous. However, the head of the then DSP was frozen after seeing the dead body of Aastha. Blood had come out of the mouth of the corpse, which had dried up.
Post-mortem and forensic doctors said that the woman did not die by hanging but by strangulation. That is, first the strangulation was done, then the body was hanged. According to the report, it was not a case of suicide but of murder. Meanwhile, a girl told the police that on the day of the incident, Aastha had sent her a message on WhatsApp which was delivered to her the next day.
Since there was no recharge in such a girl’s mobile, she got a message of faith when the internet went on recharge on the second day. It was written that my life is in danger. If I die, hand over my children to my sister. This message was enough to prove murder. When the police tried to contact Arun, he could not find any location for two days, now the needle of suspicion revolved around him.
After this the CCTV footage opened the whole thing. In this footage, on the night of 12 October, Arun was seen outside the house with three men. Then one by one everyone went into the house. In the intervening night of 17/18, Arun’s phone was switched on and the location was in his factory area. The police took action and arrested Arun and then told the story that he killed his wife by giving a betel nut.
The reason was that Aastha had a love affair with another boy and that young man had beaten Arun one day in his own house. Then Arun hatched a conspiracy and gave betel nut to two people for 1 lakh. Arun’s brother Tarun was also involved in this conspiracy and had come on the second day of the incident to give the angle of suicide to this murder. In this case, the police had also arrested the masterminds of the murder Arun, Areca Killers and Tarun.