TNN | Feb 27, 2012, 12.59AM IST
AHMEDABAD: A 27-year-old woman clobbered her husband to death when he was asleep in the wee hours of Sunday. Police have arrested the woman on charges of murder and suspect it to be the fallout of an extra-marital affair.
Odhav police officials received a complaint from Ranchhod Patel, secretary of Suketu Shopping Center, Nikol Road, on Sunday morning, that they have found a dead body in the building. Upon reaching the spot, police found the body of Pokram Sengar, 30, a resident of the same premises, from Mahalaxmi Flour Mill where he used to work. His wife Mamta was absconding from the spot.
"Sengar was hit repeatedly on his temple with a 10-kilogram weight used on weighing scale. It must have been an instantaneous death for him. Our first priority was to track down Mamta. We tracked her down with her five-year-old son with the help of technical and human surveillance from a relative's residence. She confessed upon detention that she killed her husband," said P S Goswami, inspector of Odhav police station.
He added that as per her statement, the duo had a major fight on Saturday after Sengar saw her with Vikas, a youth working at the flour mill, in the market. Suspecting them of having an affair, Sengar beat up Mamta, which enraged her. She was awake when Sengar fell asleep at night and struck him with the weight repeatedly and fled from the spot.
"We suspect her to be involved in the relationship. The duo did not have a cordial marital life and she wanted to leave him. However, we are recording statements of Vikas and nearby residents to corroborate the theory. We have arrested her for the murder," said an Odhav police official.
Odhav becoming hot spot for murders
The murder reported on Sunday was the fifth murder reported in the area so far in 2012. According to the investigators, there were four murders reported in January, including the double murder of Prachi Muraskar, 40, and Sonu, 17, residents of Arbudanagar. The duo was killed by Prachi's husband Praveen. Other victims include Gautam Makwana, 25, who was killed in a scuffle with a local bootlegger and Sandeep Yadav, 34, a paan parlour owner who was stabbed by a local strongman when Yadav asked for his dues.
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