Suspecting illicit relationship of wife a man strangulated his 30-year-old wife at Kaushal Nagar under Misrod police station area late in the night on Thursday.
According to the police, deceased’s husband Saudan Singh informed the police regarding killing of his wife Mangla Bai by miscreants who barged into the house then and killed his wife.
SHO Misrod Raj Singh Kushwaha said that it was a planned murder as the accused took her children to his relative in lateri four days ago. On Thursday he had a fight with the deceased and after the fight he attacked the deceased with an iron rod in her head and after she went unconscious he strangulated her to death. After killing the deceased accused injured himself using a sharp-edged weapon and informed police that miscreants have killed his wife.
Initially the accused provided a fabricated story that miscreants entered the house assaulted them and killed his wife but later when he was questioned he was not able to provide satisfactory answers and confessed to the crime. He confessed killing of his wife who has illicit relationship, she used to talk over phone told the accused, he added.
The children were at their paternal grandmother’s house in lateri at the time of the incident. The accused work as labour and has two children. After the preliminary investigation the body was sent for the post mortem. The police have registered a case under section 302 of the IPC and have started further investigation.