Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): A man allegedly thrashed his wife to death after she did not get dinner ready on time in Madhya Pradesh’s Barwani on Tuesday.
The deceased was identified as Barlibai Kharate, (39), resident of Ghawalfalia Verwada.
The accused even tried to disguise the murder into an accident. However, when the deceased’s son came back home, he found out that his father had murdered and reported it to the police station. The police then arrest the accused husband.
According to information, Rumalia had a dispute with his wife Barlibai on Tuesday evening over not cooking dinner on time. The fight between the two got so escalated that the husband started beating his wife with a stick, kept in the house. She screamed out of pain but the husband didn’t pay any attention and kept beating her. She sustained severe injuries and died on the spot.
Rumalia then washed off the blood from her body with water so that he could turn the murder into an accident. The deceased’s son Nilesh Kharate, returned to his home around 11 pm in the night and found the dead body of his mother. When he asked his father, he told him that she had fallen into the mortar and died. After inquiring the spot, he suspected that it was a murder as he found several injury marks on his mother’s body.
Following this, he gathered all his family members and Sarpanch. Along with them, he went to the nearby police station and complained about his father. He also told police that his father doubted his mother of having an affair and had beaten her several times earlier also for not preparing meals on time.
The police registered a case against the accused and arrested him.
