Vikrant Shekhawat : May 27, 2021, 01:53 PM
Muzaffarnagar: Police here on Wednesday arrested a 35-year-old man for allegedly murdering his 28-year-old wife and throwing his three minor children into Ganga canal. Police said the crime occurred on Tuesday after the accused, identified as Pappu of Basedi village, was denied sex by his wife Doli.How it happened According to the police, Pappu began his spree Tuesday afternoon, shooting Doli in the head after she refused to have sex with him before taking his three children Sania (5), Vansh (3) and Arshita (18 months old) to the Ganga canal and pushing them into the water. Thereafter, he fled, but the police succeeded in nabbing him the following morning. The bodies of the minors are yet to be found.“The accused said that his wife was spreading his physical advances for the last 15 days, which made him angry. Pappu had warned his wife that he would kill her if she did not do it. When she refused again on Tuesday, Pappu allegedly shot in the head... After killing the wife the accused was worried what would happen to their children so he killed them too,” a report by The Times of India quoted a police officer as saying.Citing sources, the report further stated that the now-deceased woman had tied the knot with Pappu’s elder brother around 10 years ago, and after he passed away, she married Pappu.Another incident In another incident, a 40-year-old daily-wage labourer allegedly murdered his infant son, reported after an argument with his wife. The incident took place in a Wakodi village in Nagpur district of Maharashtra.Police said on Tuesday night, Bhajan Metab Kawreti, a daily wage labourer by profession, demanded money from his wife to buy liquor. When she refused, an argument broke out. During the course of the argument, Kawreti picked up his one-year-old son Satyam and smashed him against a boulder in the courtyard, killing him.