A teacher has been murd£red over an alleged affair.
The man, said to be a yoga teacher, was buried alive in December 2024 but his body was just discovered on Monday, March 24, after the police arrested the accused following a long investigation.
The accused, who lives on Haryana’s Rohtak, India, reportedly discovered that his tenant was having an affair with his wife, so he organised with his friends to kidnap his wife’s lover and then bury him alive in a 7-foot deep pit in a field, police said.
According to police officials, Hardeep found out that Jagdeep, who lived with him in a portion of his house as a tenant and taught yoga at the Baba Mastnath University in Rohtak, was allegedly having an affair with his wife. He paid some people to dig a 7-foot deep pit in Pantavas village of Charkhi Dadri – telling them it was for a borewell – and bided his time.
On December 24, Hardeep and some of his friends kidnapped Jagdeep – who was originally from Mandothi village in Jhajjar district – after he returned from work.
Jagdeep’s hands and legs were tied and he was beaten up as the group took him to the pit in Charkhi Dadri.
Once there, Hardeep and his friends taped Jagdeep’s mouth so that he couldn’t make any noise and threw him in the pit, filling it with mud to bury him alive.
A missing person’s complaint was filed at the Shivaji Colony Police station on January 3, 10 days after the murder. The police found no leads until they accessed Jagdeep’s call records some time ago and found enough evidence to detain Hardeep and one of his friends, Dharampal.
After presenting them in court and getting their custody, police officials began interrogating the two men, who revealed the details about the killing.
The body was recovered on Monday, March 24, exactly three months after the murder.
“There are other accused in the case, who will also be arrested soon. The post-mortem has been conducted and we are waiting for the report,” said Crime Investigation Agency unit in charge Kuldeep Singh.
Watch a video of the body recovery below.
Jagdeep, a yoga teacher at a private university in Rohtak, was kidnapped and buried alive in a seven-foot-deep pit by a man who accused him of having an affair with his wife. The crime, which took place on December 24, came to light after a three-month-long police investigation.… pic.twitter.com/IsTanBNAj8
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