The Bhojpur district police yesterday claimed to have solved the murder case of a 19-year-old man, the recovery of whose body had led to violence, arson and stripping and parading of a woman earlier this week.

The body of Vimalesh Sah was found adjacent to a railway track in Bihiyan on August 20. Suspecting that those living in a red light area nearby could have killed the man, people of Damodarpur village had torched several shops, assaulted shopkeepers and dragged a woman out on street, ripped off her clothes and paraded her naked. Superintendent of Police Awakash Kumar said Sah had visited a woman of the red light area where she was strangulated to death over some monetary dispute.