Elderly woman murdered, face brutally crushed in Jabalpur:Nephew arrested over land dispute; police identify the victim using AI-generated image technology

The two-day-old corpse had a severely disfigured face, no Aadhar card, no mobile phone, making identification almost impossible. Jabalpur police questioned people in the vicinity, but no one could identify her. When data of missing women was searched, it was found that 510 women were missing in the state, but their pictures also did not match. In such a situation, the last ray of hope was the tattoo on the deceased woman’s hands and feet. Police thought the woman might be from a tribal area. Teams were sent to Dindori, Mandla, Kundam, Khamaria, but no information was found. Finally, AI (Artificial Intelligence) was used. It was found that the woman was a resident of Nibhaura village, and she had been murdered by her own nephew on the evening of November 14. ASP Jitendra Singh said that Panagar police arrested the killer, Tulsi Kewat, on Tuesday. During interrogation, he revealed that he had committed the murder out of greed for the pension money and land. After arresting the accused, he was presented in court, from where he was sent to jail. Woman’s body found in field on November 16
A woman’s body was found lying in Ratan Rajak’s field outside Nargawan village, under Panagar police station, her face was disfigured. Upon receiving information, Panagar police station in-charge Vipin Tamrakar arrived with his staff. The village watchman informed that a woman’s body was lying there. Medicines and a shawl were found nearby, and the woman was also wearing gold and silver jewelry. The police searched the area around the body for a long time, but could not find anything regarding her identification. Panagar police registered a case of murder, sent the body to the medical college for post-mortem, and began efforts to identify her. The woman had serious injuries on her head and neck. More than 200 houses searched, no trace found
Panagar police station took the photo of the woman with her head crushed and tried to identify her in the surrounding areas including Khamaria, Kundam, Ranji, Gosalpur, and even outside the district. Until the woman was identified, it was difficult to catch the killer. Therefore, Jabalpur police took the help of AI to fix the poor photo so that people could recognize her. TI Vipin Tamrakar, along with his team, put up posters of the deceased at more than 500 places in the surrounding area. Many people were shown. It was found that the deceased was a resident of Nibhaura village, named Phoolbai (58) wife of Rikhi Ram Kewat. The woman’s husband worked in the GCF factory. After his death 9 years ago, she lived with her two daughters, who are married in Gwarighat and Garha. Although the deceased also had two sons, she did not get along with them. She loved her nephew more than her two sons
Phoolbai’s two sons lived in Nibhaura village, but neither of them spoke to their mother. On October 28, the deceased came to Panagar from her elder daughter’s house, who lives in Garha, saying that she was going to Tulsi’s house and would stay there for a few days. She loved her nephew Tulsi, who lived in a rented house in Panagar, more than both her sons. Phoolbai used to receive a pension of 15 thousand rupees per month, out of which she would give some amount to Tulsi. Two years ago, the deceased had also given two lakh rupees to her nephew. Along with this, Tulsi Kewat always kept the bank passbook with him. Whenever the deceased went to the bank to withdraw her pension, he would be with her. There is also one acre of land in Phoolbai’s name in Nibhaura village. The nephew had become greedy for the land
The same nephew, whom Phoolbai loved more than her two biological sons and gave money to every month, had become greedy for the land. Tulsi, who worked as a laborer, had started to believe that his elder mother would soon transfer the land to his name, but in reality, that was not the case. A week before the incident, Tulsi mentioned the land and asked her to transfer it to his name, saying that if she wanted to farm, she should transfer the land to his name. At this, Phoolbai got angry and scolded him. From here, the accused understood that he would not get the land. Phoolbai had left to go to her brother’s house
On the morning of November 14, Tulsi Kewat came to Adhartal in search of work. In the afternoon, Phoolbai told the accused’s wife that she wanted to go to her brother and sister-in-law’s village, Leeti Pipariya, and asked her to walk with her for a short distance, then return, saying she would go alone from there. After this, she set out on foot with her daughter-in-law from Panagar, passing through Nargawan village, to go further. Tulsi didn’t get work that day, so he also returned home in the afternoon. He asked his daughter where grandmother was, and she told him that she had gone somewhere, and mother had gone to drop her off a short distance away. As soon as he heard this, Tulsi became angry. He felt that even after so much service, his elder aunt had left the house without informing him. Stopped on the way, murdered, and returned home
As soon as the accused came to know that his elder aunt was going to his uncle’s house in Liti Pipariya, he followed her. When he saw his wife returning from the front, he hid. After this, he ran to Phoolbai and asked, “Where are you going without telling me?” Tulsi was drunk, which angered Phoolbai, so she slapped him and walked on. Enraged, Tulsi Kewat pushed his elder aunt hard, causing her to fall into a pit in the field. After this, the accused strangled her to death. Then, to disfigure her face, he repeatedly attacked her with a brick so that the body could not be identified. After this, he came home. No mobile, no CCTV, AI helped
ASP Jitendra Singh, speaking to Dainik Bhaskar, said that the woman’s face was disfigured, making identification difficult. Neither the accused nor the deceased had a mobile phone. The place where the deceased lived with the accused nephew was adjacent to the railway track. On the day of the incident, the path taken first by the deceased and then by the accused also belonged to the railway. There were no CCTV cameras there. In such a situation, identifying the woman and reaching the accused was difficult. The AI-generated photo of the woman helped, and eventually, the accused was arrested.