Chhattisgarh: Tied-up bodies of mother-son duo fished out from separate wells in Durg village, lover & his cousin held for murder

Time of India

23-06-2025

RAIPUR: Durg district police on Monday have cracked the chilling case of the brutal murders of a woman and her young son at a village in Amleshwar region in Chhattisgarh. The accused turned out to be the woman's own lover and his cousin.
Durg Additional SP Sukhnandan Rathore, briefing the press said that the entire incident is rooted to a failed love affair. The accused, Chhatrapal Singour, 26, along with his cousin Shubham Kumar Singour, 22, strangled the woman and her son to death and disposed of their bodies separately in two village wells.
The gruesome discovery of the bodies on Sunday from two different wells sent shockwaves through the community.
The tied-up bodies were retrieved from wells after the villagers raised an alarm of foul smell and something floating in water.
The identity of the woman-son duo was pending as no one in the vicinity were familiar to them.
Police had constituted an SIT under the guidance of SP to investigate the murders. Police received a tip-off that the woman was seen frequently meeting one Chhatrapal Singour, and he was picked for interrogation.
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Initially, Chhatrapal gave vague and misleading answers but later revealed that the deceased woman, Sunita Chaturvedi alias Pallavi, 34, was introduced to him through Instagram. Sunita told him that her husband had passed away and that she lived in Raipur with her parents and her 8-year-old son.
Chhatrapal is a spinster promised to marry her and take care of her child. The duo got close and continued with the relationship until the woman started demanding accountability and marriage.
The accused had no intention to marry,rry and he repeatedly avoided commitment her pleadings.
In stead, he secretly married another woman one and half months back. Meanwhile, Sunita increased pressure on him to let her, and child stay with him.
Frustrated, Chhatrapal conspired with his cousin Shubham Kumar Singour to eliminate Sunita and her child. On June 18, 2025, Chhatrapal informed Shubham about Sunita's repeated visits with her child and he was adamant to remove this 'obstacle' from his happy married life.
Chhatrapal brought Sunita and her son from Raipur to his village Khamhariya on his electric scooter with an excuse to meet at an isolated place. Minutes after they reached, Shubham joined them and together, the two strangled Sunita and her son in a field.
To destroy evidence, they wrapped the bodies separately in sarees, placed them in sacks weighted down with stones, and dumped them into two different wells.
The victims were reported missing under FIR number 51/2025 at Civil Lines police station in Raipur.
Sunita's family identified the bodies. Further investigation and legal proceedings are ongoing at Amleshwar police station.
The incident has shocked the locals and the family members as they had no idea Sunita was on a chase for marriage since so long and was under threat of getting killed so brutally.
The bodies were recovered 30 kms away from their home.
It was when the village women went to the well and they spotted a body-like thing covered in sheet floating.
The foul smell made them suspicious,ious and they informed the police.
Divers were put on the job,b and they fished out the body of the boy first. Within minutes, villagers sounded an alert that there was another similarly packed woman's body floating in another well nearby.
Durg SSP Vijay Agrawal had said that the bodies appear to be two-three day old. Forensic team went to the spot to collect evidence,nce and police were probing the matter and have launched a tracking team to identify the duo.