What was initially regarded as a tragic incident of a younger man collapsing throughout Navratri pooja after an alleged coronary heart assault at his house has now became a chilling homicide investigation in Uttar Pradesh’s Bijnor.
Deepak Kumar, a 29-year-old railway technician, on Friday collapsed throughout a non secular ceremony. After his dying, his spouse instructed relations that it was a coronary heart assault, a TOI report acknowledged.
The person’s grieving family members, who had been shocked by their son’s sudden dying however not suspicious, started making preparations for a quiet farewell.
Nevertheless, issues took a darkish flip when the household insisted that since Deepak Kumar was a authorities worker, an post-mortem ought to be performed earlier than performing the final rites, the publication mentioned.
The outcomes of the postmortem then revealed a sinister crime -Deepak had been strangled.
Police shortly moved in and arrested Deepak’s 27-year-old spouse, Shivani, on Sunday for allegedly killing him with the assistance of an unidentified confederate.
Quest for Deepak’s job: Sufferer’s household claims
The motive, as per Deepak’s household, appears to be a need to assert her husband’s railway job after his dying.
“A case has been registered towards Shivani and an unknown individual, and authorized motion shall be taken primarily based on the proof,” TOI quoted Bijnor SP (metropolis) Sanjeev Vajpayee as saying.
Deepak, who’s initially from Mukrandpur village in UP’s Bijnor married Shivani on June 17, 2023. The couple had a six-month-old son and had been residing collectively in a rented home in Najibabad’s Adarsh Nagar colony.
Earlier than becoming a member of the railways in March 2023, Deepak served within the CRPF in Manipur.
In the meantime, Deepak’s brother claimed there had been long-standing tensions between Shivani and her in-laws.
“She even used to beat her mother-in-law,” Piyush, the sufferer’s brother, instructed the police.
Deepak’s mom, Pushpa, additionally confirmed their fraught relationship and added, “She killed him with somebody’s assist to get his job.”
