RAJKOT: A 24-year-old man got his mother and her paramour arrested after she confessed to him that she had got his father murdered and dumped his body in forest near Sasan.

A 45-year-old woman Varsha Shimejiya’s lover Himant Mehta (44) had murdered her husband Manoj (48) on March 6 and the duo had dumped his body in a forest. Varsha and Mehta were arrested from Balaji Park in Rajkot on Monday.

As part of the conspiracy, Mehta offered to take her husband Manoj (48) on a short trip saying they would party every day as the latter an alcoholic. He first took him to Chotila on March 5 and later to Junagadh, Dhari and Sasan, where he stoned Manoj to death on March 6. Manoj’s bones, torn clothes and ID card were recovered on March 12.

When her son Rajnikant inquired about his father’s whereabouts, Varsha told him on March 7 that an unidentified person had come to the house and informed that his father’s his body was lying in Gir forest near Sasan. Varsha and Rajnikant approached Aji Dam police station, whose officials called up their counterparts in Mendarada police station. Mendarada police denied having found any body. However, as Varsha insisted that the body was there, she, Rajnikant and his cousin Bipin Soni went to Mendarada police station on March 7. Officials denied having recovery of any body. Then they all went to Talala police station which also denied having found any body.

When they returned to Rajkot on the night of March 8, Varsha suggested Rajnikant that they should seek Mehta’s help as he was a census officer with the forest department. On March 9, Varsha, Rajnikant and Mehta went to Sasan, where Mehta knew the place where he had dumped the body. However, the body was not found at the spot.

Meanwhile, Soni got a call from Mendarada police station saying that they had found mortal remains of a person. The three went to Mendarada, where the cops showed them bones, torn clothes and ID card of Manoj, on the basis of which, Rajnikant ascertained his father’s identity. The mortal remains were sent for forensic postmortem in Jamnagar. “On Sunday feeling of guilt got the better of Varsha who confessed before Rajnikant that Mehta had killed his father. Rajnikant went to Mendarada police station and lodged a complaint against his mother and Mehta,” said Pradeepsinh Jadeja, Junagadh deputy superintendent of police.