Jhansi, April 9 -- A 40-year-old man, Chaturbhuj Patel alias Deepak, was arrested following a late-night police encounter and subsequently confessed to a double murder of his live-in partner and her three-year-old son. His admission during interrogation was the key breakthrough in what police had initially struggled to crack as a blind murder case.

The body of the woman, Nilu, with a mutilated face, had been recovered earlier on Sunday near a roadside outside Baraitha village. Since locals could not identify her, the case remained unsolved for days. As investigations progressed, the connection to Chaturbhuj began to emerge.

According to police, the breakthrough came when Lehchura police station in-charge Sarita Mishra examined records u...