VARANASI: Expressing doubt that his wife had made him impotent by giving a medicine to make an illicit relation, a middle-aged man allegedly killed and chopped his wife into pieces and dumped them over several hundred meter areas along a nullah on December 10 in Mustafabad area of the city.
The crime came to light when police caught the accused, Rajendra Sonkar, on Tuesday evening and he confessed to his crime. After this, police toiled for several hours on Wednesday to search pieces of the body of his wife Asha Sonkar (45). The couple has three daughters, two of which have been married and two sons.
SP (rural) Martand Pratap Singh said that Asha was missing since December 10 and after that Rajendra also went missing from December 11. Their son Sahil had lodged a complaint with the police on December 13. After he told the police that his parents used to quarrel frequently, the police started searching for Rajendra. He was caught by Chaubeypur police on Tuesday evening.
During interrogation, Rajendra confessed that he killed his wife and chopped her body into pieces on December 10. When asked about the reason for for killing his wife, Rajendra claimed that five years ago she had taken him to her parent’s place where she gave him some medicine to make him impotent. Rajendra further alleged that she did so to have illicit relation with another person, said Singh.
Following these revelations by Rajendra, a team of police was engaged in searching the pieces of Asha's body to send for postmortem, said Singh.