Overview
- Police identified the victim as 31-year-old Anil Rajgarh and say he went missing on September 7; his decomposed body was recovered near the Bhogdoi River on September 11 after a family complaint prompted a search.
- Authorities have arrested four residents of Greenview Tea Estate in Mariani: Kapil Karmakar, his wife Anima Karmakar, Kapil’s brother Sanjit Karmakar and their friend Mahesh Rajgarh.
- Mariani police allege Anima lured Anil to a tea-garden and attacked him with a blade before the other three accused joined the killing, after which the body was put in a sack, taken to the riverside and buried.
- Investigators say they recovered a machete from one suspect’s home, the accused allegedly confessed to involvement, and they were booked under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita sections for murder, criminal conspiracy and causing disappearance of evidence and then remanded to police custody.
- The probe remains ongoing and police accounts of motive and sequence are subject to forensic and judicial verification as the case draws attention to safety and interpersonal tensions in the local tea-estate community.