Kota: Solving the two-month-old murder mystery of a 24-year-old woman from Sawaimadhopur, Kota rural police on Tuesday arrested the victim’s husband and produced him before a court on Wednesday that remanded him in 3-day police custody.
The body of Mosmi Meena, a native of Kushtla village in Sawaimadhopur district, was recovered on November 17, 2020, from under Gaita-Makhija bridge over Chambal River under Itawa police station. The body was covered with a bedsheet and packed in a bag.
Unearthing the murder mystery, Itawa police on Tuesday arrested the victim’s husband Naresh Meena, 26, a resident of Borif village under Sawaimadhopur Sadar police limits.
The accused, suspecting that his wife Mosmi had an affair, would often engage into a scuffle with her and eventually a day after Diwali on November 15, 2020, he strangulated her to death at his house in Borif village, Itawa SHO Bajrang Lal said.
In order to cover up the crime, the accused packed the body in a bag, loaded it on his motorbike and dropped it around 100km from his village in Chambal River on the intervening night of November 15-16, he added.
The parents of the deceased woman, on not finding their daughter with her husband, lodged a missing report a few weeks later in Sawaimadhopur, he added.
On January 5, Naresh lodged a missing complaint with Sawaimadhopur police accusing Mosmi’s maternal uncle of having abducted her, the SHO said.
When police inquired him on the reason of delay in lodging the report, Naresh could not reply satisfactorily and when strictly interrogation by police, he admitted to have murdered his wife due to suspicion of relationship with someone else, he added.
Investigation revealed that Naresh was Mosmi’s second husband. Her first marriage took place in 2010 and had a baby next year, but later she had an affair with Naresh Meena and left her first husband to marry to Naresh in 2014 and had another child, the SHO said.
The accused left his two children with his parents in Borif when he murdered his wife and had been making various excuses at the queries of his children on their mother, he added.