Wife’s paramour held for killing husband in Rajkot

Rajkot: Two days after a woman lodged a complaint about her missing husband with Rajkot’s Gandhigram police station, cops arrested her paramour who allegedly stoned him to death. Police arrested Sanjay Paswan, 40, a native of Bihar on Wednesday.
According to police, Sangeeta Rathod, 35, a resident of Madhapar near Rajkot, had filed a complaint with the Gandhigram police on Monday after her husband went missing on May 3. The police, who were trying to establish a murder victim’s identity, showed her the dead body which Sangeeta identified as that of her husband’s.
The victim was identified as Sagar Rathod, 55, a native of Dhulia in Maharashtra. Rathod’s body was found near IOC depot on Jamnagar Road and postmortem revealed that he was brutally murdered. Sagar was a tailor and was living with his wife and two children — daughter Kavya and son Jay.
“When Sangeeta came to the police to lodge the missing complaint of her husband, we suspected her of cooking up a story. Her husband had gone missing on May 3 and she approached the police on May 10, which was unusual. So we grilled Sangeeta and her sister and they spilled the beans.
“Sangeeta told police that her husband was murdered by her paramour Sanjay alias Chhotu Paswan. Paswan lives in Madhapar and they were in love and wanted to get married. So, Paswan decided to eliminate her husband,” a police official said on Wednesday.
Paswan works as mason in Rajkot. “We are also probing the role, if any, of Sangeeta in this murder case. She told us that she was threatened by Paswan that if she tells anyone about the murder case, he would kill her and her children,” police added.
Man kills wife’s paramour in Morbi
Rajkot: Morbi police on Wednesday arrested Iqbal Makrani, a resident of Rajkot city, in connection with the murder of Vijay Kotak, a resident of Gujarat Housing Board in Morbi town. Kotak was left seriously injured after being attacked and was taken to Rajkot Civil Hospital where he died late on Tuesday night.
According to police, Kotak had a love affair with Iqbal’s wife Nasim, whose maternal home is Morbi town. When Iqbal came to know about his wife’s extra-marital affair, he was furious and went to Kotak’s home and killed him.