Kota: Woman kills alcoholic husband for torture

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KOTA: Fed up with regular drinking issues and torture, a 40-year-old woman killed her 50-year-old husband, a railway employee in Kota, with a grinder (musal) at Loco Colony here on Friday and attempted to cover up her crime by cooking another story.
But Kota city police busted the case within hours and arrested the woman who admitted to have committed the murder as she was fed up with torture and drinking trouble of her husband for years.
Police produced the woman before a court on Sunday that sent her to police custody for two days.
The blood-stained body of Rajendra Chobdaar was recovered from his bed on Friday night, circle inspector at Railway Colony Muninder Singh said.
Acting promptly into the matter to trace the accused, a special team formed by Kota City SP Gourav Yadav and led by ASP Praveen Jain busted the mystery within hours on Saturday and arrested Lalita alias Premlata, who confessed to the crime.
The woman had murdered her husband on Friday noon but in order to hide her crime, she cooked up a story and called her brother-in-law around 8pm saying she found her husband in the bed with blood oozing out of his ears, Singh said. She told police on Friday, her husband in an inebriated condition tortured her and in a fit of rage she attacked him with with a grinder killing him on the spot. The only son of the couple is already in jail for murder, he added.
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