By Tim Binnall
A man who confessed to murder in India told police that he turned himself in because the victim's ghost had been tormenting him. According to a local media report, the strange case began in the early morning hours of March 25th when an intoxicated Brijlal Agariya unexpectedly stopped by the home of his friend, Mithlesh Kujur, in the village of Bhagwanpur. The drunken visitor attempted to keep the proverbial party going, but the understandably surprised homeowner passed on having a drink with him, which led to the two pals fighting.
During the scuffle, Kujur's cell phone was damaged, causing him to fly into a rage and beat his friend to death with a stick. Incredibly, the homeowner and his wife proceeded to bury the Agariya's body in a hole that they had hastily dug inside their house and covered with a board and dirt before fleeing the scene. Over the next several days, the couple hid at a relative's home. However, their time on the run was brief as Kujur turned himself in to the authorities on Wednesday with a rather wild explanation for why he wandered into the police station and unexpectedly confessed.
After recounting the unfortunate circumstances surrounding Agariya's death, his killer told cops that he was compelled to surrender after repeatedly being visited by his friend's ghost, who insisted that he needed his last rites. That said, police expressed skepticism about the man's supernatural-fueled guilt. Instead, they suggested that Kujur realized the hurriedly hidden remains would be discovered sooner rather than later and attributed "fear and psychological pressure" as the driving forces that compelled him to confess.