In a gruesome incident, a man stabbed his wife to death here in a posh multi-storey building on Wednesday afternoon. The incident occurred at around 1 pm when the accused identified as Ramkumar Gupta (55) in a fit of anger stabbed his wife Rajkumari Gupta (48) to death in his flat (No. 501) in multi-storey apartment BCM Heights located in Navlakha locality of the city. Soon after being informed about the matter, city police reached the incident site, arrested the accused and sent the deceased's body to MY hospital for post-mortem. The incident has created a shock wave in the locality.
Police said the accused Rajmumar Gupta who was living in flat no. 501 in BCM
Height along with his wife Rajkumari, two sons and a daughter-in-law Shilpi, had suspected character of his daughter-in-law Shlipi, leading to frequent fights between them as well as in his family.
On Wednesday afternoon, police said that while accused's daughter Shilpi was cooking food in the kitchen, the accused along with his wife Rajkumari was in the hall. All of a sudden, the accused had some heated arguments with his daughter-in-law and in a fit of anger he attacked her with a kitchen knife on her shoulder and hand. Gripped by fear, she raised an alarm. Subsequently, her mother-in-law rushed to her rescue and caught hold of her husband Rajkumar. While Shilpi went out of her flat to seek peoples' support, the accused Ramkumar started fighting with his wife.
Thereafter, he closed main door of his flat and stabbed his wife with the knife repeatedly till she collapsed and died. Police immediately reached the incident site after being informed about the matter and found the deceased Rajkumar lying in a pool of blood.
Police immediately arrested the accused and sent body of the deceased to MY hospital for post-mortem. The accused's daughter-in-law who had sustained injuries after being attacked by her father-in-law was also rushed to the hospital, where her condition was stated to be out of danger.