The police on Tuesday claimed to have cracked the murder case of a 24-year woman in Jharkhand's Seraikela-Kharswan district last week, stating that her teenage lover killed her with a piece of a concrete slab for refusing sex, a senior officer said. The woman's body was found near the Kharkhai river bank under Seraikela police station on November 28. The police solved the case after arresting her 19-year-old lover Ghansiram Murmu alias Rahul.

The postmortem examination report revealed that the woman was not raped as alleged by her family members, Superintendent of Police Mukesh Kumar Lunayat said. The police officer said that the woman had gone to meet Rahul on the bank of the Kharkai river on the evening of November 27. At that time, he demanded sex from her but she refused. Following an altercation, the accused killed the woman by hitting her with a piece of a concrete slab, the SP said