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The carton and its contents at Sukhdeonagar police station in Ranchi on Friday. (Hardeep Singh)
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Hell hath no fury like a lover scorned.
A Ranchi couple got a terrifying taste of revenge spurred by unrequited relationship when a parcel was delivered on their doorstep on Friday morning. The carton, weighing 5kg and brought by a youth who identified himself as a courier company agent, contained a countrymade firearm and three packets of marijuana.
Police suspect the role of 28-year-old homemaker Puja Sahu’s former boyfriend behind this conspiracy to implicate her medical representative husband Satyanarayan Sahu (30) under the arms and narcotics control acts.
A resident of Shivaji Lane in Sukhdeonagar, Sahu was depositing his electricity bill at the JSEB office in Harmu around 11am, when he received a frantic call from Puja.
“My wife was hysterical. She said someone had delivered a parcel in my name, which she opened and found a gun and something that looked like tobacco. I rushed home. The carton had my name on it, but not that of the sender or the courier company. I decided to inform police,” he told The Telegraph.
SSP Saket Kumar Singh said preliminary probe into this bizarrely frightening case had revealed the involvement of Odisha resident Raju Kumar Soni, who had a relationship with Puja Sahu before she got married in 2009.
“It appears that he (Soni) wanted to set up Sahu. The plan perhaps was to tip the police after delivering the parcel so that Sahu got arrested,” he said, adding that a police team would be sent to the neighbouring state to hunt for Soni.
Sukhdeonagar OC A.K. Giri ruled out Puja’s involvement in the case. “Our probe suggests that Soni wanted to harass the Sahu family. She (Puja) has no ill intention. Else, she would not have informed her husband, which would have ensured his implication in a criminal case,” he said.
Sources indicated that besides Soni, there might be others involved in the case like the youth who delivered the carton. “The box had Sahu’s name, but an incomplete address. So, it was not sent by post or courier,” a source said.
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