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Uttar Pradesh Police has arrested a man in Mahoba district for allegedly killing his pregnant wife with a sharp-edged weapon while in an inebriated condition. According to the information, the accused, identified as Hanif, was arrested after the investigations got suspicious over his changing accounts of what happened to his wife.
While speaking about the case, Kulpahar CO Aniruddh Singh told the news agency that Hanif called the police at around 11:30 PM on Saturday and informed them about his 27-year-old wife, Manisha Mansoori's death.
CO Singh said that the body had injury marks on the head and neck, caused by a sharp-edged weapon. Upon questioning, Hanif continued to change his statement about what led to her death.
His contradictory statements landed him on the suspect list. The police got a breakthrough after the couple's five-year-old son told the police that his father attacked his mother several times while being in an intoxicated condition.
The police said that the accused is addicted to alcohol and the deceased was around eight months pregnant. It was only after the child gave his statement that the accused confessed to the crime.
Accordingly, the police registered a murder case and sent the woman's body for post-mortem. In a separate incident in Rajasthan's Jhunjhunu, a man allegedly beat his wife to death for not giving him money for alcohol.
The accused allegedly hid her body in an iron trunk last week. The incident took place on July 18 in Agwana Khurd village under the Surajgarh police station limits. The case came to light after four days, when a foul smell started emanating from the trunk.
SHO Ram Singh Yadav said the accused was identified as 40-year-old Krishna Kumar Jat and had a dispute with his wife, 34-year-old Sulochana.
"When the woman refused to give money, the accused allegedly beat her brutally, leading to her death," he said.