Seven arrested for murdering army man in Jabalpur

Seven persons including three women were arrested on Monday in connection with the murder of an army man last week, police said.

Seven persons including three women were arrested on Monday in connection with the murder of an army man last week, police said.

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A total of seven persons including three women have been arrested for killing A Babu, a resident of Gopalpur in Orissa who had come to the city for training at Army's EME Training Centre here, they said.

They were identified as Anand Chaddar, Prakash Patel, Ganesh Jharia and Parsu alias Purshottam besides three women Preeti Chaddar, Saroj Chaddar and Pushpa Ahirwar, they said.

The three women who are allegedly involved in a sex racket lured the army man and took him to an isolated place for the purpose of robbing where their men accomplice were waiting to accomplish the task, police said.

The accused had an altercation with the army person before they killed him for not fulfilling their demand, they said.

Babu's decomposed body was recovered from shrubs in Vijay Nagar locality here on November 3, police said.