Man arrested for killing wife

Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, June 17

The city police claimed to have solved a case of mysterious death of a woman who was found dead on June 13 at her house.

ADCP Rupinder Kaur Sran, ACP Davinder Chaudhary addressed a press meet regarding the matter.

The ADCP said on June 13, Aarti was strangled to death by her husband at their rented accommodation. After killing her, he had taken her to a hospital on the pretext of arranging treatment for her but doctors declared her brought dead.

The suspect has been identified as Pintu Kumar, a native of Uttar Pradesh, at present staying in Vishawkarma Nagar, Tajpur Road.

Initially, the police had initiated inquest proceedings under Section 174, CrPc, on the statement of the woman’s father as the latter suspected that she might have died a natural death. Later on June 15, when the autopsy of the deceased was conducted, doctors stated that cause of her death was strangulation.

“After the autopsy report, when we started the probe, we found the role of woman’s husband suspicious. When he was rounded up, he confessed to having killed his wife. He had killed the woman as he suspected that she had an illicit relationship with some other person,” the ADCP said.

She said yesterday, he had planned to leave for UP but was nabbed from near the Samrala chowk bus stop.