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Nearly two months after police claimed to have solved the murder of 28-year-old Pooja Yadav, who was killed in May 2023, Chinhat police arrested another accused in the case.

Pooja was murdered by her husband, father-in-law and their aides, to claim the money from an insurance policy taken out in her name.

“The arrested man, identified as Abhishek Shukla, 36, had come with an insurance offer to the suspect and was also the driver who crushed Pooja and made it look like a road accident,” said Bharat Kumar Pathak, in-charge. Chinhat Police Station.

Six people had hatched the conspiracy for Pooja’s murder, including her father-in-law, Ram Milan; husband Abhishek; Kuldeep Singh, 27, the main conspirator; Alok Nigam, 38, a lawyer who provided legal advice; one Deepak Verma, 25 and Abhishek Shukla, the insurance policy seller and the truck driver.

Alok and Deepak were part of the woman’s wedding ceremony in 2022 as eyewitnesses.

“While clearing up the case in October 2024, police arrested three people Alok, Kuldeep and Deepak, who had staged a fatal accident to eliminate a 28-year-old woman to claim insurance money and get loan waivers worth a total of crores of rupees. in her name. These plans were made even before the woman married the family. Ram Milan was arrested earlier and Abhishek surrendered before the court on October 18,” the SHO said.

He added that all of them had made the murder look like a road accident and had also lodged an FIR for the same. But their plan went against them when they applied for the life insurance and loan claims to the bank, raising the red flag that led to the matter being made public.