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West Bengal: School teacher kills wife with help from criminals he met in jail
The trio strangulated the victim on Tuesday night and disfigured the body by pouring acid. Ghosh paid the criminals were paid Rs 1 lakh and promised Rs 2 lakh more, police said.
A school teacher in West Bengal’s Burdwan district was arrested for allegedly murdering his wife with the help from two criminals he met in jail two years ago while serving term for dowry harassment.
Ujjwal Bhaskar Ghosh (40) was arrested from Katwa town in Burdwan district early on Saturday for the murder of his wife Mahua, which their six-year-old son witnessed.
The trio strangulated the victim on Tuesday night and disfigured the body by pouring acid. Ghosh paid the criminals were paid Rs 1 lakh and promised Rs 2 lakh more, police said.
Ghosh, a history teacher at a local school, had spent a night in jail two years ago after Mahua lodged a complaint against him on charges of dowry harassment. It was in jail that he met the criminals, the police suspect.
Ujjwal, however, behaved normally after the crime and even attended school. When Mahua was not seen for three days, his neighbours got suspicious on Friday night and accosted him and thrashed him, making him confess. The neighbours then informed the police, who also arrested Ujjwal’s mother, Chhobi Ghosh.
Ujjwal’s son told the police that he saw his father and two unknown persons strangulating Mahua in the drawing room. The child said when he started crying his father locked him inside the bedroom.
The criminals, whom the police did not name, came on a motorcycle and carried the body to a desolate place about two kilometres away, poured acid on the face and left the body beside a pond.
It was discovered on Wednesday morning. Since it was disfigured the police sent it to the hospital morgue, said an officer at Katwa police station.
