In Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, 20-year-old Akanksha met Suraj on Instagram. The two began dating, worked together at the same restaurant, and eventually entered a live-in relationship. Unbeknownst to Akanksha, Suraj was simultaneously dating a second woman whom he had also met on Instagram. When Akanksha discovered messages from the second girlfriend on Suraj's phone, a dispute ensued. Subsequently, the second girlfriend also learned about Akanksha's existence and demanded that Suraj kill Akanksha and provide a photograph of her corpse as proof before she would remain with him. On July 21, following a conflict at their residence, Suraj allegedly strangled Akanksha to death and took a selfie with her corpse, which he sent to the second girlfriend. To dispose of the body, Suraj summoned a friend from Banda. The pair placed Akanksha's body in a bag, transported it 100 kilometers on a motorcycle to a bridge in Banda, and threw it into a fast-flowing river. To mislead Akanksha's family, Suraj retained her mobile phone—which actually belonged to her brother who was working in Delhi—and sent text messages posing as her. However, he addressed her mother as 'Ma' rather than using 'Bhaiya' (brother), raising immediate suspicion. Suraj later boarded Kanpur Central Railway Station and threw the phone onto a moving train to obscure geographic tracking. After three days without direct contact, Akanksha's mother, Vijayalakshmi, filed a missing person report. Kanpur Police initially questioned Suraj, who claimed Akanksha had left after an argument. Upon subsequent interrogation, Suraj confessed to the homicide and identified his accomplice. Police arrested Suraj and his friend, but despite extensive searches in the river, Akanksha's body has not been recovered four months after the incident. Police continue to evaluate the potential criminal liability of the second girlfriend while preparing a circumstantial case supported by the selfie evidence.
Country: India
State/Province: Uttar Pradesh, India
City/Region: Kanpur
Incident Type: Murder
Relationship Status: Live-in relationship
Relationship Duration: Several months
Incident Date: July 21, 2025
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Crime Tak - India · Original language: Hindi
EP 2103: दूसरी Girlfriend ने कहा अपनी पहली GF को मार दो,उसे सबूत के लिए लाश के साथ Selfie चाहिए थी
Jealousy
This case illustrates an extreme escalation of romantic rivalry and deception initiated over social media platforms. The offender maintained concurrent secret relationships with two women met on Instagram without either knowing about the other. Once the deception was discovered, the second partner issued a deadly ultimatum demanding the victim's elimination and photographic proof, leading the primary suspect to commit murder to preserve his secondary relationship.
Kanpur Police arrested Suraj and his accomplice following a confession. Although four months have elapsed and the victim's body has not been recovered from the swift currents of the river in Banda, police hold circumstantial evidence including the suspect's digital selfie taken with the corpse and cell tower location tracking logs. Investigators are also examining the legal liability and potential criminal incitement charges against the second girlfriend.
Initial investigative delay occurred when Suraj persuaded officers that Akanksha had voluntarily departed after an argument while he continued showing up to work normally. Further confusion was deliberately introduced when Suraj threw the victim's phone onto a moving train at Kanpur Central Railway Station to throw off cell tower location analysis.
The case was reconstructed when Akanksha's mother noticed structural anomalies in text messages sent from her son's phone, leading to a missing person report. Police traced Akanksha's workplace and live-in arrangement with Suraj, whose initial alibi collapsed under sustained police interrogation. Suraj subsequently confessed to the murder, revealed the secondary girlfriend's ultimatum, provided the corpse selfie evidence, and detailed how he and his friend transported the bagged body on a motorcycle to a bridge in Banda.
The convergence of clandestine multi-partner dynamics, extreme possessiveness, and violent ultimatums created a critical threat level. The offender demonstrated a complete absence of internal restraint when prompted by his secondary partner, carrying out strangulation and post-mortem photographic verification without hesitation.
Digital social media connections can mask high-risk deceit and multi-relationship manipulation. Post-offense behavior involving digital obfuscation—such as throwing communication devices onto moving transport—highlights sophisticated attempts at evading technical surveillance. Digital footprint recovery, such as shared media files, remains pivotal in non-body murder prosecutions.
The primary early signal was Akanksha's discovery of hidden Instagram chats on Suraj's phone revealing a concurrent romantic affair, followed shortly by the second girlfriend discovering the same chat history.
A key clue was the text message sent to the mother from the victim's brother's phone addressing her as 'Ma' instead of 'Bhaiya', which signaled to the family that someone else was operating the phone.
The strongest piece of physical/digital evidence cited is the selfie photograph Suraj took with Akanksha's body after strangling her, which was transmitted electronically to his second girlfriend as proof of death.
Restaurant colleagues in Kanpur confirmed to police that Suraj and Akanksha were cohabitating in a live-in relationship. Akanksha's mother, Vijayalakshmi, stated that her daughter went missing after July 21 and detailed receiving the suspicious text message that prompted her police report.
Initial missing person reports shifted to a murder investigation after police re-interrogated Suraj, leading to his detailed confession regarding the strangulation, selfie proof, motorcycle transportation, and river disposal in Banda.
The primary unresolved element is the recovery of Akanksha's physical remains from the river in Banda, alongside the final legal determination of criminal charges against the second girlfriend for incitement.