Wife murdered on suspicion of illicit relationship, arrested

Gumla. Suspecting of illegal relationship late on Wednesday night near Bazar Tand located in Chainpur police station area, the husband killed his wife by slitting her throat with a cockerel. Police arrested the accused from Chainpur bus stand. It is said that there used to be frequent disputes between husband and wife. Due to this, the wife was living in her maternal home Rampur village for a long time. On Wednesday, both of them met in Chainpur Block Mod. After this, husband Amit Toppo brought his wife Manjula Toppo (Manjula Singh) home after persuasion. Meanwhile, while having breakfast in the hotel, an argument started between the two. At 9:30 in the night, Amit could not control his anger and murdered his wife by slitting her throat with a cockerel kept in the house and fled.

The accused reached Chainpur bus stand in the early morning of Thursday in a bid to escape, where the police arrested him. The police have also recovered the sandpaper used in the murder at the instance of the accused. Police has sent the dead body to Sadar Hospital Gumla for postmortem.

Amit Toppo told the police that he was suspicious of his wife’s illegal relationship for a long time, due to which she did not live with him. they have three children. Two children lived with the mother and one child with her. There was a lot of argument between the two in the night, after which he got angry and executed the incident.