3 people died due to poisonous sweets in Chhindwara. To avenge the harassment allegations, the woman’s in-laws had mixed arsenic in the sweets. Police have arrested 3 accused in this case.
Bhopal: A new twist has come in the case of death of three people, including two members of the same family, in Chhindwara, Madhya Pradesh. It has been revealed that all three died after consuming sweets mixed with poison. Earlier it was believed to be a case of food poisoning, but later it was proved to be murder. A woman, her grandfather and a security guard have died in this case.
Unclaimed bags took the lives of 3 people
The case started on January 9. An abandoned bag full of vegetables and pedas was found near a government office. Dashru Yadavanshi, a 50-year-old security guard on duty, first ate peda from this bag. As soon as he ate, he started having vomiting and other physical problems and died during treatment on January 11. But the postmortem of the first death was not done.
Sweets of death…
Later, the same bag containing sweets was taken home by the family of a nearby shopkeeper. There, four people including 22 year old Khushboo Kataria and her 72 year old grandfather ate the remaining sweets. He was also admitted to the hospital. Despite treatment, Khushboo and her grandfather died, while her mother and sister narrowly escaped death. Police started further investigation after three deaths occurred under similar circumstances within three days. As the investigation progressed, the entire truth of the conspiracy came to light. Police say that the reason behind the incidents is that Khushboo, who will get married in January 2024, had accused her in-laws of harassment. The investigating officers found that these complaints brought bad name to the in-laws in the society.
Police have detained 3 accused from Khushboo’s in-laws house. Police say that the accused had mixed arsenic in sweets and kept the bag near Khushboo’s father’s shop, in the hope that Khushboo or her family would consume it. Investigation by the Forensic Science Laboratory revealed that the amount of arsenic in the peda was thousands of times more than the prescribed limit. It was also found that the amount of poison was enough to kill many people. Police said the accused did not expect that the security guard would eat it.