Crime / Wife used to 'stop' for illicit relationship with her sister, man murdered by slitting her throat

BAREILLY: Days after a woman’s body with the throat slit was found in a maize field in Sambhal district’s Asmoli area, police arrested her husband for the murder. An extramarital affair with the victim’s younger sister is the cause for murder, police said.

Chakresh Mishra, Sambhal SP, said, “We have arrested the victim’s husband, Atar Singh, for the murder. The murder weapon has been recovered. The accused himself was a complainant in this case but we suspected him from the beginning.”

Police said they found the body of Jogendra Devi, a Dalit, from a maize field outside Madala Fatehpur village on June 10. Meanwhile, her husband filed a missing complaint of his wife at Asmoli police station. Later, Atar Singh claimed that he had gone to another village with his mother to meet his relatives when his wife was murdered.

While probing the case, police found that Atar Singh was in a relationship with his wife’s younger sister. He believed that after his wife’s death, her parents would not say no to his proposal for the younger sister. He used a sickle to slit her throat.