SURAT: Surat police on Saturday arrested a man from Khedbhrama in Sabarkantha district who is accused of killing his wife and packing her body in a gunny bag in city’s Puna area. Police said that the accused travelled on foot with his fruit cart to Ahmedabad and then to Sabarkantha in a private luxury bus after killing his wife on December 4.
Likharam alias Laxman Kesharam Chaudhary, 36, a resident of room number 650 at Muktidham society at Archana circle in Puna killed his wife in cold-blood and packed her body in the gunny bag on December 4. Accused slept with his wife’s body for one night before leaving for Sabarkantha the next day.
Talking to TOI, VU Gadariya, inspector of Puna police station said, “The accused had married the victim through an agent by paying Rs 3 lakh a few months ago. The couple was not in good relations since the beginning and had frequent fights over monetary issues.”
According to Gadariya, the accused had been operating a fruit and vegetable cart in Puna for the last couple of years.
“The accused stayed the night with his wife’s body on December 4 and left home the next day with his cart to Ahmedabad travelling on foot the entire distance. He sold his cart in Ahmedabad and boarded a private bus to Sabarkantha,” said Gadariya, adding that cops acted on a tip-off and asked the driver of the bus to stop at a hotel in Sabarkantha. “Our police team nabbed the accused from a highway hotel in Khedbhrama in Sabarkantha early on Friday morning,” Gadariya said, adding that the accused was presented before the court which sent him to judicial custody.