The Valentine’s Day turned out to be bloody for a couple when a man suspecting the fidelity of his wife slit open her throat here on Sunday afternoon and later tried to kill himself at the district hospital where the body of his wife had been brought for post-mortem.
The incident occurred in Dwarkapura locality of the city here on Sunday afternoon when the accused identified as Narayan Gawle suspecting character of his wife Anita, slit open her throat at his residence and fled, leaving her dead and lying in a pool of blood.
The incident came to light at 1.30 pm when neighbours living near his residence, saw the youth fleeing carrying blood stained knife in his hand. Suspecting something fishy, people went to his residence and to their utter dismay found his wife Anita lying in a pool of blood. They immediately informed about the matter to the police. Soon after receiving information, Annapurna police reached the incident site and sent body of the deceased to the district hospital for post-mortem.
In the meantime, when the accused came to know, he rushed to the district hospital to further attack his wife. However, when the accused came to know that his wife is dead, he created scene there and attacked himself with knife repeatedly and later slit open his throat. It almost took two hours to the police to control him. It was only after arrival of his son Rohit that he somehow mellowed down and was rushed to MY hospital from the district hospital in a critical condition. Till filing this report, the accused’ condition remained critical.
The accused was earlier working at Indore Municipal Corporation. However, due to his errant and erratic behaviour, he was ousted from his job.