Army officer kills his extra-marital girlfriend over 'pressure of marriage', held

An Indian Army officer stationed in Dehradun was arrested for allegedly killing his Nepali girlfriend over ‘pressure of marriage’, Dehradun police revealed a day after discovering woman’s lifeless body under mysterious circumstances in the Sirwal Garh area on Monday. The investigation revealed that the woman hailed from Nepal and resided in Siliguri. Ramendu Upadhyay, a lieutenant colonel assigned to the Clement Town cantonment area, was allegedly having an an extramarital relationship with the 30-year-old woman. The police stated that he committed the crime when she began putting pressure on him to marry her. He was apprehended at his residence in Panditwari Prem Nagar. The victim, identified as Shreya Sharma, first crossed paths with the accused at a Siliguri dance bar, and their relationship continued for three years. Upon his transfer to Dehradun, he relocated Shreya to the hill station and rented a flat for her, as per his confession during questioning. On Saturday night, Upadhyay and the woman had a few drinks at a club on Rajpur Road. Subsequently, he proposed a long drive, to which she consented. However, when they arrived at Thano Road, an isolated area on the outskirts of the city, around 1:30 am, he parked the vehicle and used a hammer to strike the woman repeatedly on the head until she succumbed, according to the police. Following the murder, Upadhyay abandoned her lifeless body by the roadside and departed. The Army officer was already married and was facing pressure from the woman to wed her.