Man held for pregnant wife’s murder in Pune

Mihir Tanksale | TNN | Updated: Apr 8, 2020, 13:17 IST

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PUNE: A note found near the body of a 23-year-old pregnant woman helped the Narayangaon police arrest her husband for throttling her, suspecting her of infidelity.
The police said the suspect placed the note near her body and also scattered her clothes to give the impression of rape and murder. “We analysed the handwriting and found it consistent with the husband’s style,” assistant inspector Arjun Ghode Patil said.
The police took the man into custody where he admitted to throttling his wife. They have a three-year-old daughter.
The officer said on Monday afternoon, the woman had left home in Junnar taluka, to cut grass. When she did not return her relatives went out looking for her. “Her body found in a sugar cane field nearby . There was a tobacco pouch and the note near the body,” Ghode Patil said.
The note stated that the woman had an affair with a man.