Senior Superintendent of Police, Gaya, Garima Malik told reporters here Manjhi's grandson Vikki Manjhi and his father Yogendra Manjhi were arrested and charged with the murder of Vikki's 25-year-old wife Soni Devi on Saturday last.
Vikki's mother Sunaina Devi, who is the eldest daughter of Jitan Ram Manjhi and a ward member of Gaya Municipal Corporation, was allowed to go home following interrogation at a police station although the investigation in her role will continue, she said.
Her father Ramdev Manjhi, a native of Sugaon village under Makhdumpur police station area in neighbouring Jehanabad district, had lodged an FIR charging his son-in-law and other family members with murdering his daughter and destruction of evidence.
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