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Noida man hammers wife to death over suspicion of affair, surrenders before police
The victim worked as a civil engineer at a private firm in Sector 62, Noida. She lived with her husband and two children in Sector 15.
Blinded by suspicion, a Noida man allegedly bludgeoned his wife to death with a hammer at their upscale Sector 15 home on Friday afternoon and then walked more than two kilometres to the police station to confess to the gruesome killing, senior officers said.
Police said the the 55-year-old man, a computer engineering graduate, suspected his wife of having an extramarital afafir. Around noon, after what family members said was a night-long argument, he allegedly locked their bedroom door, muffled her screams with a pillow, and repeatedly struck her on the head with a hammer till she died.
The 42-year-old victim, 42, worked as a civil engineer at a private firm in Sector 62, Noida. She lived with her husband and two children — 19-year-old son, and 12-year-old daughter — in a two-storey house in Block C of Sector 15.
“On Friday around 1pm, my wife (the victim's sister) received a call from the son, who informed her that his mother was dead. When my wife asked what had happened, the boy said his father killed her, and she was lying in a pool of blood on the bed,” said the victim's brother-in-law a resident of Jamia Nagar in Delhi.
Her family revealed that the couple had been quarrelling for the past several days. Around 5am on Friday, the woman had called her sister, seeking her intervention as the couple had been fighting through the night.
“On Friday morning, my wife and other relatives went to their house and counselled the couple for over five hours,” he said.
Amit Kumar Maan, station house officer of Phase 1 police station, said: “After the murder, the man walked over 2km to the Sector 20 police station to surrender. He informed officers at the station that he had killed his wife over suspicions of an affair.”
The Sector 20 police immediately alerted Phase 1 police, who dispatched a team to the scene to secure the premises and begin the investigation.
“A case under Section 103 (murder) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita has been registered at Phase 1 police station, and the body has been sent for an autopsy,” Maan said.
Additional deputy commissioner of police, Noida, Sumit Shukla, said, “He accepted that he killed his wife over suspicion of an affair. He did not express any remorse for his act. We have recovered the hammer from the spot, and further investigation is underway to record the statements of the suspect and the others.”
