A bizarre incident has come to the fore at Deogaon village under the Kesinga police station in Kalahandi district, where a man killed his wife for not giving birth to a son even after 17 years of their marriage.
The accused identified as Uchhab luhar murdered his wife Sukeshi and dumped her body in a riverbed on the day of his second marriage with another woman to have a baby boy.
The body remains were recovered from the riverbed during investigation by police on Saturday morning, one and half months after the incident.
Reports said Uchhab had married to Sukeshi 17 years ago and the couple has a daughter aged about 15 years old. However, he was under depression for an heir. He decided to marry another woman identified as Tarini for a son.
Uchhab tied the knot with Tarini on June 16. On that day, his first wife went missing and nobody noticed it during the wedding function.
later, the locals informed Sukeshi’s mother Roche Parabhoi of Goipita village under the Bhawanipatna Sadar police station about her daughter’s missing. She filed a complaint with Utkela outpost and later approached the Kesinga police along with few women’s group members to look into the case.
During the course of investigation, police found that Sukeshi was killed and her body was buried in the Reta riverbed.
Police recovered the skeleton of the deceased from the riverbed and detained six persons including Uchhab for interrogation in connection with the murder of Sukeshi.