By Our Staff Reporter
Dehradun, 11 Sep: Dehradun Police have arrested an in-service army officer on murder charges. The army officer is of the rank of a Lieutenant Coloneland is currently posted in Clement Town. It may be recalled that the dead body of a woman was recovered from the forests off Raipur-Thano Road. According to police sources, the woman, named Shreya Sharma and aged between 25 and 30 years, was a resident of Kathmandu, Nepal, and used to work in Siliguri. It was here that she had come in touch with Lt Col Ramendu Upadhyay, who was then posted in the North East. Both came close to each other and went on to have a live-in relationship. The Police claim that the reason behind the murder was the pressure being put by the girl on the Army Officer for marriage.
The arrested Army Officer, Lt Col Ramendu Upadhyay, lives currently in Panditwari area under Police Station of Prem Nagar, and is a native resident of Mohalla Chandrashekhar Nagar, Rosa Ghazipur in Uttar Pradesh (UP).
Lt Col Upadhyay is a 2010 batch Army Officer. In January 2020, he met Shreya Sharma, a girl of Nepali origin, at a Dance Bar in City Centre Mall, Siliguri, West Bengal. He and Shreya Sharma developed an intimate relationship and reportedly started living with each other. However, soon after, Upadhyay was transferred to Dehradun and he brought Shreya to live with him here. However, Upadhyay was a married man and his wife came to know about this relationship. She arranged for Shreya to be sent back to Siliguri.
After a while, the army officer again called Shreya to Dehradun and this time kept her in a local hotel here for a few days before renting a flat in Clement Town. This time, however, Shreya started pressurising him to marry her, which led the Lt Col to plan her murder.
On 9 September, the Colonel took Shreya to a local club on Rajpur Road where they had drinks till late evening. After this, he took the girl to Thano Road and parked his car inside the forest near village Saura Saroli. Both, he and the girl were in a drunken state. Here, the officer took out a hammer and smashed her to death and even tried to burn her face afterwards to make her unrecognisable. He then disposed of the body in the forest and returned to his residence, and hid his car somewhere nearby.
However, the Police managed to solve the case within two days of the murder and the murderer was arrested today from Clement Town area.
