HORRIFYING MURDER: Shahbaz stabs tribal girl Neelkusum 51 times with a screwdriver in Chattisgarh

Korba, Dec 28: In a very horrifying crime, a man named Shahbaz allegedly killed a 21-year-old tribal woman by stabbing her 51 times with a screwdriver in Chhattisgarh's Korba district. The police claim that the accused Shahbaz murdered her for ignoring his phone calls.

 

 

Tribal by birth, Neelkusum had converted to Christianity. City Superintendent of Police (Korba) Vishwadeepak Tripathi said that the incident took place on December 24 at the Pump House Colony of South Eastern Coalfields Limited (SECL).

 

According to the police, when the accused reached there, the victim was alone in the house. He covered her mouth with a pillow to muffle her screams and stabbed her 51 times with a screwdriver. The officer said that the victim's brother later found her lying in a pool of blood when he reached home.

 

As per reports by Dainik Jagran and others, the accused took a flight from Gujarat to Chattisgarh to kill the girl for ignoring his phone calls. As per the postmortem report, the victim was stabbed 34 times in the chest, 16 times in the back, and once in the side with a screwdriver. The wound near the heart was the most severe.

 

 

The preliminary investigation revealed that the accused, a resident of Jashpur district, had befriended the victim three years ago when he was working as a conductor in a passenger bus and the woman used to travel in it.

 

The officer said that after this the accused went to Ahmedabad in connection with work and both were in touch through the phone. When the woman stopped talking to him on the phone, the accused also threatened her parents. Police have registered a case and a search is on for the missing accused.