In Jaunpur, UP, a person killed his wife with a pillow and later reached the police station and surrendered. The police arrested the accused and started investigating the case.
According to the news agency report, the accused Alok Singh (38) lived in Miyapur area with his wife Alka Singh (35) and seven -year -old son. Local people said that on Wednesday evening, the couple went to the market to shop for Holi with their son. Everything was normal till night, but in the early hours, Alok killed his wife with a pillow and left the house with the son.
On Thursday afternoon, accused Alok himself reached the line market police station and confessed his crime in front of the police. He told that he has killed Alka. As soon as the information was received, the police station officer Satish Singh reached the spot with his team. The police broke the lock of the house and recovered the body of Alka and sent it for postmortem.
Alka Singh’s maternal uncle is in Karv village of Barsathi police station area. As soon as the incident was reported, his mother Pushpa Singh reached the spot crying. He alleged that Alok used to beat Alka and torture her since marriage.
Additional SP Arvind Verma said that the accused has been taken into custody and he is being questioned. Further action will be taken based on the complaint of the family of the deceased woman. The police is also investigating that there was domestic discord or any other reason behind the murder.