2 women booked for killing husbands in separate incidents

The accused told us that she had called her 15-year-old minor sister to take care of her as the delivery date was very close. On Monday night, her 30-year-old husband, who works as a daily wage labourer, molested her sister...

JAIPUR: A woman axed her husband to death in Sikar district allegedly after he molested her minor sister, while another woman killed her spouse in Pali district because she was angry with his drinking habit, police said on Wednesday.

Bhagwan Sahay, the station house officer (SHO) of Losal police station, said the woman who allegedly killed her husband in Sikar is nine-month pregnant.

“The accused told us that she had called her 15-year-old minor sister to take care of her as the delivery date was very close. On Monday night, her 30-year-old husband, who works as a daily wage labourer, molested her sister and when she intervened, her husband, who is an alcoholic, started beating her,” Sahay said. The issue was settled then.

However, around 3.30 am on Tuesday, when the husband was sleeping the woman in a fit of rage attacked him multiple times with an axe and he died on the spot, the accused told the police. She allegedly dug a pit behind her house and buried the body in it.

In the morning, the woman reached the Losal police station and confessed to the crime, police said, adding that she was

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yet to be arrested as they were verifying her claims.

In the Pali incident, a 55-yearold woman was arrested for allegedly killing her husband by a steel rod. The murder took place two weeks back, but came into limelight on Tuesday, following which the local police recovered the body, police said.

The woman, Kamla Kanwar, and her husband, Hameer Singh (60), lived in Mada village in the district. “Police arrested Kanwar after she confessed to her crime. Accused told the police that she was unhappy with the drinking habit of her husband. He often quarrelled with her in drunken state, due to which their neighbours would taunt him. Singh’s drinking habit was also causing a bad name in society and Kanwar went in depression after that,” said Himanshu Jangid, circle officer, Bali.

About two weeks ago, Singh called Kanwar to bring food for him at their farmhouse in the evening. “When Kanwar reached, Singh was sleeping drunk. Seeing the opportunity, she hit him with a steel road on his head for two to three times,” Jangid said. The woman allegedly buried the victim’s body and told her children that their father has gone missing. The couple’s two daughters are married and son lives in Africa.

Later, doubting Kanwar, her younger daughter questioned her, who then confessed to killing her father, after which a complaint was lodged on Tuesday and Kanwar was arrested, Jangid said.