Srinagar: A man from Uttar Pradesh (UP) was arrested soon after he killed his wife and subsequently called at an office of a local newspaper to confess his crime.
Police, according to a news report by Hindustan Times, has identified the suspect by his first name as Akhilesh, a resident of Kasganj UP.
Akhilesh, who works as mason has allegedly killed his wife 26-year-old Bijli, also identified by police by her first name, in their rented home in Dadha village in Kasna after an “argument.”
Quoting police, the report said that a 27-year-old Akhilesh allegedly killed his wife, attacking her with a hammer and a sharp object over domestic discord on Thursday afternoon.
Soon after hitting his wife, the suspect, according to the report, called a Hindi newspaper’s local office and informed that he killed his wife and police soon after reaching to the spot, arrested the man.
Vishal Pandey, additional deputy commissioner, Greater Noida Zone 3 told Hindustan Times that couple had married in 2015.
“They had married against their family’s wishes and had two children- a three-year-old son and a year-old daughter. They had moved to Dadha a month ago,” the officer said.
Akhilesh allegedly told police that Bijli was not happy in their new home and he could not meet her expectations. “They used to quarrel frequently over domestic issues which involved managing household on a meagre salary,” the police officer was quoted by the report as having said.
On Thursday, police said that the couple had a heated argument over dosmetic issue. “The suspect hit the woman on the head with a sharp object and kicked her multiple times and she died later later died,” Pandey told the newspaper.
Once he had realised what had happened, Akhilesh called up the newspaper office which relayed it to the police. A police team reached the spot and found him sitting near the woman’s body.
“We have registered a case against the suspect under Section 302 (murder) of the IPC. The suspect was produced in court and sent to judicial custody,” the report quoted ADCP as saying.
Later, police handed over the children to the woman’s parents who live in Shahberi in Greater Noida west.
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