A married woman prisoner who was arrested for killing her husband committed suicide by consuming poisonous substance at central jail Bhopal late night on Sunday.
Saraswati Ahirwar, the deceased was arrested after it was found that she had fabricated death of her husband Vikas, as suicide.
When the fact was revealed and accused woman was arrested but she committed suicide at the central jail Bhopal on Sunday. Judicial inquiry has been started in the case as suicide was committed in judicial custody.
According to the police, on June 1, 2015 Saraswati had a fight with Vikas in which he sustained head injuries that led to his death but she framed the death as suicide and hanged the body with the ceiling using her saree.
During the investigation, when the post-mortem report was received police found that Vikas died due to head injury and when the accused was questioned she accepted to have committed the crime and claimed that she tried to term the murder as suicide with a fear that her two children would be left with no parents for upbringing.
The accused was arrested on August 9 and was sent under Judicial custody by court where she consumed poisonous substance and was rushed to Hamidia hospital where she died.
The family used to live at Siddharth Enclave at Hazrat Nizzamuddin Colony and the deceased used to work at Indrapuri office of online shopping company Snapdeal. They got married in the year 2009 and had two children from the marriage.
On the deceased's body around 13 injury marks were found and some of the injuries where found in the back of the head. During the fight Vikas was pushed by the accused in which his head rammed into a stone and proved fatal.
Gandhi Nagar police have registered a case under section 174 of the CrPC and have started further investigation.