Kota Man hacks wife, drags body on street

Press Trust of India

A man hacked his wife to death and then dragged her body on a Kota street, police said on Wednesday, adding that their infant son who was injured in the attack died at a hospital later.

Sunil Valmiki alias Pintu (40) killed his wife at their home in Bhatapara on Tuesday night, following an altercation, they said. The accused was detained as he surrendered himself at Rampura police station soon after committing the crime, Kota superintendent of police (SP) Vikas Pathak said in a statement, adding he was arrested for the double murder on Wednesday.

Earlier in the day, two police officials gave contradictory statements regarding the arrest.

First, deputy superintendent of

KOTA:

police (DSP) Ram Kalyan said the accused reached the police station and confessed to the crime after leaving his wife’s body on the street. Later, station house officer (SHO) Hansraj Meena said he moved towards the station to confess but ran away.

The police said the accused, has five cases lodged against him under sections of rape and assault of the Indian Penal Code and sections of the Arms Act and the Excise Act. On Tuesday afternoon, he picked his wife Seema (35) and their nine-month-old son from her brother’s house. Their elder son, aged nine years, stayed back with his uncle and grandmother. The couple had an argument in the evening, the DSP said, adding, he attacked his wife with an axe later. He then dragged her body for 70 to 80 metre on the street,, adding the infant died during treatment