BHOPAL: Cops in the Chhindwara district of Madhya Pradesh were confronted with a complex question, whose answer lay perhaps, in the DNA analysis of a young woman. A woman married in Agar-Malwa district and mother of two kids recently walked into a police station in Chhindwara district, claiming to be Kanchan Uike, who was allegedly abducted and murdered by her father and brother in 2014. While her father has come out of jail last month only on bail, brother continues to be behind the bars in the same case.
In June 2014, a 14-year-old girl Kanchan Uike went missing mysteriously. Subsequently, a case was registered under Section 363 IPC (kidnapping) at Amarwara police station of Chhindwara district.
It, however, took the police seven long years to find out where actually the abducted Kanchan was. “Grilling of Kanchan’s father by the Singodi police outpost in-charge in 2021 revealed that the girl was actually murdered and buried by her father and brother.
Based on the father-son duo’s admission, a human skeleton was exhumed from the place told by the accused duo. The DNA analysis report in the matter, however, is awaited, and a charge-sheet has been filed in the court. While the murder-accused father has recently come out on bail, the co-accused son remains in jail,” additional SP Sanjiv Uike said.
Surprisingly, the police documents pertaining to the recovery of the skeleton in 2021, reportedly mentioned the recovery of 210 bones, although it’s an established fact that the human body has 206 bones.
According to Kanchan’s uncle Sukhdas Uike, the place from where Kanchan’s alleged skeleton was exhumed in 2021, actually bears the graves of all other deceased members of the extended Uike family and it’s quite possible that the skeleton exhumed from the ground could actually be someone else’s skeletal remains.
In a dramatic twist, the woman claiming to be the same Kanchan Uike walked into the concerned police station in Chhindwara district and submitted that she was alive and had neither been abducted nor murdered in 2014. “I went on my own in anger over a tiff in the family in 2014 and later got married. I live with my family, including two kids in Agar-Malwa district now. I recently came to know about my father and brother being in jail on false charges of murdering me, after which I rushed here,” the woman claiming to be Kanchan Uike said.
She accused the cops of torturing her father and brother to make false admission of murdering her. The ASP said, “Nine years have passed since the incident. The appropriate legal procedure will be followed in the matter and her DNA too will now be matched.”