A construction worker from Siora Chartai village in Sultanpur district of Uttar Pradesh allegedly beat his wife to death after she did not answer his phone calls. Doctors declared Kusum (42 years old) dead when her children took her to the hospital.
According to a PTI report, when Kusum did not answer his calls throughout the day, an angry Nakshed, 45, returned home and started assaulting her in front of their children: Udaybhan (9) and Diksha (8). When the children tried to intervene, he pushed them aside and continued the assault. The accused has since been arrested, police said.
The police added that Nakshed assaulted his wife relentlessly throughout the night. The couple’s daughter said that when she realized that her father would not stop, she took her injured mother to a relative’s house.
However, when they returned the next morning, Nakshed allegedly resumed the assault, this time using a stick. Kusum was actually seriously injured and collapsed during this attack. She was taken to a nearby hospital where she was declared dead.
Circle Officer Balderai Ashutosh Kumar said that he, along with station house officer Anju Mishra and a police team, reached the spot and inspected the accident site. Kusum’s body has been sent for postmortem.
The police said that the accused was arrested and during interrogation he admitted to assaulting his wife, but claimed that he did not realize that the attack would be fatal.
The couple has two young children and an eldest son, Tilak Raj (22), who works in Punjab. Police said further investigations are underway.
In a separate incident in Uttar Pradesh’s Saharanpur district, a 25-year-old woman was allegedly shot in the head by her brother in what police suspect was a hate crime.
The attack took place in full view and in the presence of police officers outside the community health center on Monday. The victim, identified as Rakhi, was undergoing treatment at a private hospital and was reported to be in a critical condition at the time of latest updates.
