Assam: Muslim man surrenders after killing Hindu wife, in-laws.

Assam Triple Murder: The turbulent relationship between 25-year-old Nazibur Rahman Bora and 24-year-old Sanghamitra Ghosh culminated in the grisly crime this Monday. The ‘Love -Jihad’ relationship grew during the Lockdown period due to Covid-19.

Hundreds of Hindu locals created a ruckus outside the police station on July 24 night after Najibur Rahman’s surrender. They were demanding capital punishment for the murderer.  

Ranadhir Choudhury | HENB | Guwahati | July 27, 2023:: A Covid lockdown love story has ended in a gruesome triple murder in Assam’s Golaghat district. Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma called it a ‘Love Jihad’ story with a ‘fatal ending’.

The turbulent relationship between 25-year-old Muslim youth Nazibur Rahman Bora and 24-year-old Sanghamitra Ghosh culminated in the grisly crime this Monday when Nazibur murdered her Hindu wife and her parents, before surrendering to police with their nine-month-old baby in his arms.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma today met the family at their residence in Golaghat and assured punishment to the accused.

According to police, Nazibur, a mechanical engineer by qualification, and Sanghamitra became friends on Facebook in June 2020, during the nationwide lockdown to contain the pandemic. Friendship turned to love within months and in October that year, the two eloped to Kolkata.

Sanghamitra’s parents brought her back home, but she had already married Nazibur in a Kolkata court.

The next year, Sanghamitra’s parents Sanjeev Ghosh and Junu Ghosh registered a police complaint, accusing her of theft. Sanghamitra was arrested and spent over a month in judicial custody. After getting bail, she returned to her parent’s home, police said.

In January 2022, Sanghamitra and Nazibur eloped again, this time to Chennai, where they lived for five months. When the couple returned to Golaghat in August, Sanghamitra was pregnant. They started living at Nazibur’s home and had a son last November, police said.

However, four months later, in March this year, Sanghamitra left Nazibur’s home with her infant son and went to her parent’s home. She accused Nazibur of torturing her and registered a police complaint. A case of attempt to murder was registered and Nazibur was arrested. He was released on bail after 28 days.

Once out of jail, Nazibur wanted to meet his child, but Sanghamitra’s family did not let him. In fact, on April 29, Nazibur’s brother registered a police complaint, accusing Sanghamitra and her family members of assaulting Nazibur.

On Monday afternoon, as tensions between the two sides reached a breaking point, Nazibur murdered his wife Sanghamitra and her parents. He then fled with his nine-month-old baby. Later, he surrendered before the police.

At the Ghosh’s home, the bodies of Sanghamitra and her parents lay in pools of blood oozing out of machete wounds.

“A case of murder and house trespass has been registered against the accused,” Assam police chief GP Singh tweeted. The state CID team has been roped in to probe the grisly murder.

Forensic teams have also been called in and further investigation is on, police said.

Sanghamitra’s sister Ankita has alleged that while she was on a video call with the victim on Monday evening, she saw Rahman trying to attack the family with a machete.

Ankita immediately informed the neighbours, but when they reached the house, the three were already dead.

After committing the crime, Rahman fled the spot with his and his deceased wife’s infant son.

However, a few hours later, he reached the Golahat police station with the infant and surrendered.

Rahman is currently in custody and he will be produced before a court on Tuesday.

The infant has been sent to a children’s home. According to Ankita,

Rahman hid his actual identity while marrying Sanghamitra. “He told us his name was Rimon Bora,” she told reporters here.

Ankita further claimed that Rahman forcefully took Sanghamitra and married her in Kolkata, adding that the victim was subjected to domestic violence by the accused.

She then left Rahman’s house and started to live with her parents in Golaghat. However, Rahman continued to misbehave with her whenever he used to come to their house.

Meanwhile, the angry locals who protested outside the police station on Monday night have demanded capital punishment for the accused.

At one point, an unruly mob began pelting stones at the police, following which the police resorted to lathi charge to disperse the agitators.

A senior police officer said that Rahman has been interrogated in custody and further investigation is underway.

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__Inputs from NDTV and Deccan Herald.