Man, returning from abroad, beats wife to death in Kerala over suspected infidelity

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A 56-year-old man allegedly beat his wife to death on Friday at Viyyur in Kerala after suspecting her of infidelity, police said. The accused, Unnikrishnan, had been working abroad for some time. He allegedly committed the crime three days after returning to the country, they said.

After killing his 46-year-old wife, the man reached Viyyur police station in the early hours of Friday and surrendered, they said.

"He was abroad and reached Kerala on August 8," a police officer told PTI, adding that the accused has confessed to the crime.

Police said he doubted his wife's activities and assaulted her after accusing her of cheating.

Meanwhile, a man was arrested for allegedly killing his 20-year-old daughter for spending a day away from home, tying her body to a motorcycle and dragging it through his village in Amritsar, police said on Friday.

He later dumped the body on a railway track, they said, adding that CCTV cameras in the area captured him dragging the body with the two-wheeler.

Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Kuldeep Singh said the incident took place in Muchhal village which comes under Jandiala town and accused Bau, a Nihang Sikh, works as a labourer.

He said Bau's daughter left home on Wednesday without informing anyone in the family and returned on Thursday.

Singh said Bau was angry at her daughter over this and when she returned home, he beat her up and murdered her using a sharp-edged weapon.

The man has been booked under Indian Penal Code section 302 (murder) and arrested, the DSP said.

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Earlier in the day, two brothers from Punjab's Jalandhar were brutally murdered in Solan district of Himachal Pradesh allegedly over a monetary dispute, police said on Friday.

They said the incident took place at Nalagarh on Thursday evening. The victims were identified as Varun, who used to work as an electrician in the district, and Kunal.

A maternal uncle of the deceased, Lokesh, told police that one Gaurav Gill of Punjab's Nakodar had asked his nephews to meet him over a monetary dispute.

When the two brothers refused to go to Nakodar to meet Gill, they were asked to come to a spot on the Nalagarh-Ramshehar road where three people on a motorcycle attacked them with sharp-edged weapons, a police official said.

The victims were found lying on the road and police rushed them to a hospital, where doctors declared them brought dead, he added.

Police checked CCTV footage from the area and put up check posts to nab the assailants, Superintendent of Police, Baddi, Mohit Chawla said, adding a case of murder has been registered. (Agencies)