Man kills wife after argument, hides body in cupboard

Gaurav Kanthwal
Tribune News Service
Lalru, June 22 

A man strangled his 30-year-old wife to death and then stuffed her in a cupboard in Lalru Mandi, police sources said on Tuesday.

Police arrested Jasbir Singh, who’s originally from Patiala’s Masingan village, after they found the body of his 30-year-old wife Rama Rani in a cupboard in the couple’s house on June 20.  The woman’s father Rambaklal Pal, a native of Uttar Pradesh’s Unnao, had filed a missing person’s report after he found his daughter missing.

The couple has been married for 10 years and has two daughters.  Police sources said the suspect killed the victim, who worked at a factory, after an argument.

He will be brought before a magistrate's court on Wednesday, the sources said.

Mohali SP (Rural), Ravjot Grewal said:” Police found the body of Rama Rani with injury marks on her neck and froth coming out of her mouth. Police have registered a case under Section 302 against the suspect Jasbir Singh on June 21 and handed over the body to kin after the postmortem”.