In a horrifying incident, a man allegedly strangled his wife to death because she refused to have sex with him, police said on Sunday. The accused man had tried to concoct the incident by saying that his wife had consumed poison, but the ‘cooked up’ story was exposed and the accused has been arrested.
According to police the deceased was identified as Tameshwari alias Mamta Sahu (22) wife of Parmeshwar Sahu (28) resident of Semra village under Bhakhara police station, Dhamtari. The accused Parmeshwar Sahu had killed his wife on May 1 last, Station House Officer Bhakhara, Nirbhay Singh Rajput informed.
The SHO talking to The Pioneer informed that the duo had married three years back and had a two-year-old girl.
“After marriage the couple had fights regularly. The dispute grew so intense that Mamata last year went to her parental home in Mainpur during Rakshabandhan festival and did not came back,” the SHO said.
The accused husband then took the matter before community Panchayat and on April 24 this year and the Panchayat gave the verdict that Mamta should return hubby’s house, SHO maintained adding, differences between husband-wife still existed.
Police said that On May 1 around 9 pm in his house, Parmeshwar Sahu expressed his desire to make physical relation with his wife, which was snubbed by Mamta. The accused was enraged over the rejection and forcibly tired make relation with his wife and in the scuffle Parmeshwar strangulated Mamta to death, SHO claimed.
The accused then reached police station and told police that his wife had died after consuming some kind of toxic substance. However, the evidences gathered from spot and post-mortem report pointed toward Parmeshwar, who was then subjected to intense interrogation and he finally confessed to his crime, SHO informed.