An eight-month pregnant woman was allegedly stabbed to death by her husband at their residence in Sector-22, Noida, on Saturday morning.
Preliminary investigations revealed that her husband, Mobin Akhtar, suspected her of having an illicit relationship which incited him to take the extreme step.
Shadab Parveen (35) has a five-year-old son, Moin Akhtar. Parveen and Mobin stayed at a rented accommodation.
"On Saturday around 7 am, Mobin dropped his son to the school. On returning, he had a heated argument with his wife and stabbed her with a knife," said a senior police officer.To give the incident the shape of a theft, he cleaned the blood stains and broke open the almirah and the suitcase. "He picked his son from the school and went to Parveen's brother's house in Mandawali Khalil Ahmed, Parveen's brother claimed that Mobin came to them and described the theft to them.
"He told us that Parveen resisted the unknown assailants and was thus murdered. I smelt something fishy; so I called the police and took Mobin along with me to his residence.
Police opened the door and we found Parveen lying on the floor," he said. "Mobin confessed to his crime and has also been arrested.
He revealed that he suspected his wife of having an illicit relationship and quarrelled with her regularly.
A case of murder was registered at Sector 24 Police station, but since her family members claimed that she was killed for dowry, hence, we have also registered a case of dowry death. The weapon used in committing the crime is yet to be recovered," said Vishwajeet Srivastava, Deputy Superintendent of police.