In a gruesome incident, a man hacked to death his wife in his flat in Aerodrome police station locality on Tuesday night. Brawl over marriage anniversary gift is stated to be the reason behind incident. The incident came to light late Tuesday night when a patrolling team of the Aerodrome police station accompanied by local residents barged into the house of the deceased.
The police found deceased Prachi (23) lying in a pool of blood on her bed, while her husband identified as Govind was about the leave the incident site, carrying knife in his hand.
Aerodrome police station TI Ramdin Kanawa informed that information about the incident was given to a patrolling police team passing from Ashok Nagar by the locality people. Soon after being informed, the patrolling police team accompanied by people of the locality reached the residence of Govind Namdev, son of Dinesh Namdev and found the deceased lying in a pool of blood on her bed.
Police said the deceased Prachi, a native of Bhopal, had a love marriage with the accused about a year ago. The couple had celebrated their first marriage anniversary only on July 6 and the accused Govind had uploaded some photographs of his marriage anniversary on the social media as well.
The accused on being interrogated by the police, said that he had a very tensed relation with his wife for the past five days. We both had celebrated our first marriage anniversary on July 6, the accused Govind told police adding that after their marriage anniversary party, his wife Prachi had demanded a diamond jewelry from him but he had expressed his inability for the same assuring that he would give the said gift to her soon. However, she got infuriated and started quarreling with him, the accused told police. According to accused, on the day of incident, his wife was talking to someone over her mobile phone. This infuriated him and under the influence of liquor he stabbed her with slit open her throat with knife, the accused said.