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Punjab: Missing IAF officer's body found chopped, stuffed in 16 polythene bags; colleague arrested

The Punjab police have arrested the Indian Air Force (IAF) sergeant in connection with the murder of missing IAF corporal, whose body was found stuffed in the accused's quarters, reported Hindustan Times.

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The Punjab police have arrested an Indian Air Force (IAF) sergeant in connection with the murder of a missing IAF corporal. The latter's body was found stuffed in the accused's quarters, Hindustan Times reported.

Vipin Shukla, a corporal in the Air Force Wives Welfare Association Canteen went missing on February 8 following which a complaint was lodged by his wife Kumkum.

Shukla's body was discovered after the police and the Air Force station officials detected a foul smell from the residential quarters of the accused, Sulesh Kumar, a sergeant in the Bhisiana airforce station. Shukla's body was was found stuffed in 16 polythene bags and hidden in different parts of the accused’s quarters.

Shukla was a resident of Gonda in Uttar Pradesh; he joined the Air Force in 2009. He was posted at the Bhisiana Air Force station in May 2014.

The police have arrested Kumar and his wife Anuradha, while Kumar’s brother-in-law Shashi Bhushan who worked in the Merchant Navy, is absconding. 

Kumar, the accused, confessed to his crime upon interrogation and claimed that the victim had illicit sexual relations with his wife Anuradha, the police said.

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