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Whodunnit? His wife did it for money
IN A bizarre incident, a woman assaulted her husband and later strangled him in Naka on Sunday night. The woman, who was second wife of the victim, would allegedly beat him regularly and snatch his salary every month depriving children from his first wife of school fee and other requirement. The victim Rajesh Sonkar (48) was a head cashier of Union Bank of India, Hazratganj branch. The local police though registered a case of murder after much reluctance, they have yet to arrest the woman even after the post-mortem report established that it was a murder.
IN A bizarre incident, a woman assaulted her husband and later strangled him in Naka on Sunday night. The woman, who was second wife of the victim, would allegedly beat him regularly and snatch his salary every month depriving children from his first wife of school fee and other requirement.
The victim Rajesh Sonkar (48) was a head cashier of Union Bank of India, Hazratganj branch. The local police though registered a case of murder after much reluctance, they have yet to arrest the woman even after the post-mortem report established that it was a murder.
Station house officer (SHO) Lallu Singh claimed that the woman was absconding. On the other hand, the accused, accompanied by her relatives created ruckus at the Bhainsakund cremation site on Monday evening.
The woman and her kin engaged in a verbal dual with Sonkar’s family members over procuring death certificate from the Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC) counter at the Bhainsakund. It was late in the evening when local residents heard screams from Rajesh Sonkar’s house at Ganeshganj.
They rushed to the house to find Sonkar’s wife Suman Lata wailing and her husband’s body lying on the floor close to the door. When enquired by the neighbours Suman claimed that she was busy in house work when her husband hanged himself with a nylon cord from the clamp of the door. Suman’s brothers and other kin, who also live in the same locality, also arrived at the place soon. Later, Sonkar’s sons Montu (19) and Sontu (17) also reached there and informed their father’s relatives.
The neighbours informed the local police and the body was sent for the post-mortem examination. Sonkar’s elder son Montu later told the police that his stepmother used to beat up his father regularly and snatch his salary every month. Montu said that his father had requested them (Montu, Sontu and their sister Naina) to discontinue their studies.
Sonkar had told his children that he was unable to pay their fee as Suman did not give a single penny for the same.
Sonkar had married Suman in 1992 after his first wife Madhu died in 1989. Madhu’s children Montu and Sontu used to stay with Sonkar while Naina (16) was living with Madhu’s mother since childhood.
The SHO said that circumstantial evidences indicated that Suman had strangled Sonkar to death and later had cooked up the story of suicide.
