Updated On: 01 June, 2024 05:26 AM IST | Mumbai | Samiullah Khan
Suspect fled to Harayana and hid in the house of a woman friend; had killed his live-in partner after quarrel over affair with another woman

Lakada had murdered Toppo on May 23.
The Vanrai police have arrested the accused who fled after allegedly murdering his live-in partner and wrapping her body in a plastic sack in Goregaon East. According to the police, the accused fled from Mumbai and took shelter in the house of a female friend in Haryana. From the call data records of his mobile phone and bank account details of the accused identified as Jairam Lakada, 39, the police found his other mobile phone number. While tracing the second number, the police team reached Haryana from where they got information about him and took him into custody from Gurugram.
The accused, identified as Jairam Lakada, had been on the run following the murder of Dibya Toppo, 29. The gruesome incident came to light when neighbours, alerted by the odour of the decomposing body, broke into the locked house and discovered Toppo’s body wrapped in a plastic sack.