Woman’s husband, kin held for her murder

Rajkot: A woman’s husband and her brother-in-law were arrested for her murder in Mota Gundala village of Jetpur taluka in Rajkot district on Sunday night.
Police said the accused, identified as Vinod Hamipara (44) and his elder brother Lalji Hamipara (47), had allegedly strangled Vinod’s wife Lakshmi Hamipara (42) in the morning of May 5.
The accused first tried to mislead the police by claiming that Lakshmi had died of a cardiac arrest. However, after her postmortem revealed death by strangulation as the reason, the Hamipara brothers were arrested.
When Lakshmi’s friend Vandana Patel called up Lakshmi’s brother Eknath to inform him about his sister’s death, Eknath asked her to ensure that Lakshmi’s postmortem was conducted.
“Lakshmi’s postmortem report revealed that she had died of strangulation. When we interrogated her husband, he confessed to the crime. Vinod said as he and his brother Lalji were sick and tired of Lakshmi’s cantankerous nature, they decided to murder her,” said S V Godhiya, sub-inspector with Jetpur taluka police station.