UP: Construction worker held for murder of pregnant wife

GREATER NOIDA: A 27-year-old construction worker allegedly killed his pregnant wife with a hammer and a sharp object over domestic discord on Wednesday afternoon in Kasna’s Dadha village.
According to police, the accused, identified as Akhilesh, called a newspaper’s office after the crime and informed that he has killed his wife, Bijli. Soon after when police reached, the accused was found sitting next to his wife’s body lying in a pool of blood.
“During interrogation, Akhilesh revealed that the duo had an inter-religion marriage against their family’s will in 2015. They had moved into a rented accommodation at Kasna’s Dadha village with their two kids only a month before. He told police that Bijli was troubling him over their new flat and also had financial demands which he was not able to meet,” a police officer said.
Vishal Pandey, Additional Deputy Commissioner (Zone 3) told TOI that on Thursday, the husband and wife had an argument. “Akhilesh said he had moved in a lot of houses because of the woman, it seems she was not happy with the kind of lifestyle she had gotten after marriage,” the officer said, adding that following a heated argument, the accused had slit the woman’s throat with a sharp object he used in civil construction and also rained blows with a hammer on her head.
The police registered an FIR under Section 302 (murder) of the IPC.