Bilaspur. Drunken husband strangled his wife to death. Fed up with her husband’s daily consumption of alcohol, the married woman forbade her husband to drink alcohol. Due to which there was a dispute between the two and the husband killed the wife by strangling her. Then secretly he was also performing the last rites of his wife. Only then the police reached and the whole matter was revealed. The matter belongs to Takhatpur police station area.
Virendra Nishad, a resident of Salhekapa village of Takhatpur police station area, is a farmer. His wife Kanti Nishad committed suicide by hanging herself. Virendra informed the villagers about this that when he came back drunk at night, his wife refused to sleep with him and went to sleep separately. I also went to sleep in the other room. When he woke up in the morning, his wife had committed suicide by hanging herself. Virendra did not inform this to his wife’s parents. And was about to cremate the dead body secretly. But as per the procedure to be done before the last rites of the dead body, when the women of the village were bathing the dead body and applying turmeric. Then they saw injury marks on the neck of the deceased Kanti Nishad. The women of the village quietly informed the police through the Kotwar of the village.
On receiving the information, Takhatpur police immediately reached the spot. Till then Marghat had been taken for the last rites and the funeral pyre was being decorated. The police took the dead body into their possession from there and got the post-mortem done by making a panchnama. The matter was being investigated by establishing a marg. Meanwhile, the matter of murder by strangulation came to the fore in the short PM report. On which the police interrogated the deceased’s husband Kanti Nishad in custody. At first he kept on misleading. But later it broke on being strict. and confessed to the murder.
