Woman was run over and killed by SUV after argument outside hotel - Jaipur, India

Mangesh Arora (above) who was arrested on Wednesday in Jaipur for running over a 25-year-old woman and killing her outside a hotel at Girdhar Marg on Tuesday

JAIPUR: The city police said on Wednesday that a heated quarrel in a drunken state led to the murder of 25-year-old Uma Suthar, who was deliberately mowed down by an SUV at the busy Girdhar Marg in Malviya Nagar area a day earlier.

To teach a lesson to Singh and his (Singh's) woman friend Uma Suthar, Arora ran over the duo in a fit of rage, said police. The incident left Singh seriously injured, while Suthar died.

DCP (East) Gyan Chandra Yadav revealed this in a press conference after arresting Arora for the murder of Suthar. "Arora arrived with his girlfriend at the hotel where Singh was already present with Suthar. Arora passed off a comment about Suthar, and a quarrel broke out wherein both traded abuses at each other," he said.

When police interrogated the accused, he claimed that while drinking liquor, he had jokingly made a remark to Singh that when he was already married to a teacher, why he was hanging out with Suthar. This led to an argument between them. The police found that Arora and Singh knew each other through a common friend identified as Vishal.

Both Singh and Arora then stepped out of the hotel where Singh's cab had already arrived. Suthar was also standing with Singh. "Meanwhile, the accused's friend Gaurav, who was sitting with Mangesh, instigated him by asking if he was so "impotent" as to leave even after getting so much abuse. After this, Arora got angry, took his car back, and ran it over Singh and Suthar at speed," Yadav said.

Sources said that the accused may have also known the victim for the past six months, but this information is yet to be corroborated. They said that they had closed off all avenues for escape and the flow of resources to the accused was cut off. As a result, he agreed to appear before an ACP rank officer and was subsequently arrested.

The police also discovered a suspicious Vidhan Sabha sticker and Rs 9 lakh in cash from his SUV. The sources said that the accused was planning to flee abroad to Cambodia, Thailand, etc, but did not have a passport, nor was he able to find an easy way to leave the city.

Police on Wednesday retrieved a video of the incident, shot by someone from atop a building. The video showed Arora first reversing his SUV, then accelerating the vehicle and runnin it over Singh and Suthar.

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