Man arrested for killing wife using cylinder

A 22-year-old man was arrested on Thursday for allegedly murdering his wife by smashing her head with a cooking cylinder in Bajghera, said police

Published on: Mar 27, 2026, 04:22:01 IST

By Debashish Karmakar

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A 22-year-old man was arrested on Thursday for allegedly murdering his wife by smashing her head with a cooking cylinder in Bajghera, said police.

Sandeep Turan, public relations officer of Gurugram police, said that Sunil lifted a filled small cooking cylinder, and used it to hit his wife’s head.

Police identified the suspect as Sunil Kumar, originallyy from Kancha in Samastipur, Bihar. He had shifted to Gurugram ten days ago with his wife Gunjan Devi, 20.

Police said the couple shifted to a house in Chauma on Monday. On the same night, at around 10.30pm, the couple had an argument, after which he assaulted her.

Sandeep Turan, public relations officer of Gurugram police, said that Sunil lifted a filled small cooking cylinder,and used it to hit his wife’s head.

“Gunjan started bleeding and fell unconscious. After hitting her multiple times with the cylinder, he fled from the spot,” said Turan.

Turan said that the next day, their landlord spotted Gunjan’s body lying in a pool of blood from a window and alerted the police.

“Investigator and forensic experts reached the spot and collected evidence. The body was shifted to the mortuary for autopsy,” he said.

Investigators said that Sunil continuously kept changing his location to avoid getting arrested but he was caught on Thursday. After he was arrested, he confessed to murdering Gunjan.

On the complaint of the landlord, an FIR under section 103(1) (murder) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita was registered against the suspect on Wednesday. Police said the body will be handed over to the family after they reach Gurugram.

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Debashish Karmakar
Debashish Karmakar is a principal correspondent with the Hindustan Times, Gurugram bureau. He has a vast journalistic experience of almost 14 years of covering crime, court, power, transport, administration, weather and other beats while working across various organisations. He has been covering Gurugram, Faridabad, Nuh, Palwal and other districts of southern Haryana for more than four and a half years. He has produced several breaking and exclusive stories while reporting from the ground where he maintains a strong presence on a daily basis. He writes news articles which are hard-hitting and accurate. With his strong bureaucratic sources, he frequently writes stories to expose the failure of the system forcing authorities to take necessary course-corrective steps. Besides crime, important convictions and court orders, he also writes on human-angle stories, on power issues and challenges faced by the residents on a daily basis in Gurugram and neighbouring areas. In the past, he worked for media houses like The Times of India, where he extensively reported on important government matters and daily proceedings at the Patna High Court. He has also worked in the electronic media and had done ground coverage on the Kedarnath deluge that wrecked Uttarakhand in 2013.Read More

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