City police achieving breakthrough in a murder case have arrested a tribal from Jhabua on the charge of killing his wife and tempering with murder evidence. The accused identified as Bhura Ninama, a native of Chainopura Rampuria in Jhabua district had killed his wife Puni Bai (40) in Indore on April 21 in a drunken state following a tiff with his wife.
Soon after committing the crime, the accused took the body of his wife to Jhabua to perform her last rites surrpetiously. However, even before he could have performed the last rites, his in-laws came to know about the incident and rushed to Jhabua and handed over the body to Jhabua police for postmortem which revealed physical injuries which led to her death.
On the basis of postmortem report, Jhabua police arrested Bhura who on being interrogated by the police confessed to his crime. According to police, the accused along with his wife was working as labour at Parlia village of Gautampura tehsilk for the past sometime. He was a habitual drinker and used to have frequent tiff with his wife. In the morning on April 21 this month, the couple again had a tiff. Thereafter, in a fit of anger, Bhura hit his wife with an axe and lathi, leading to her death on the spot. After sometime, when Bhura regained his senses, making an excuse that he was taking his ill wife to hospital, took her body to his village. However, his in-laws came to know about the matter and informed the same to Police.