Husband kills wife after she suspected he was involved in extramarital affair

Mumbai Police have arrested 32yearold man for allegedly strangulating his 28yearold wife as she kept questioning him about his extramarital affairThe husband allegedly killed his wife when she was asleep and later called her brother pretending she isnrsquot respondingAccording to the police while the accused was insisting to take his wifes body to hometown for funeral the deceaseds brother insisted on taking her body to hospital suspecting murderOn July 27 the accused identified as Rajesh Inarkar called up his wife Roshnirsquos brother stating that she hasnt woken up and is nonresponsiveRoshnirsquos brothers from Panvel Thane and Virar arrived at Sanmaan Nagar Wadala Village They found their 28yearold sister is not breathing Her husband Rajesh was insisting she shouldnrsquot undergo postmortem and rather should be taken to hometown for last ritesldquoMahesh and Jagdish Esare brothers of Roshni told Rajesh that they should take her to hospital as itrsquos a procedure before taking any dead body out of cityrdquo said an official from Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Marg police station ldquoThough Rajesh was resisting the move Roshnirsquos brother didnrsquot paid any heed and took her to KEM Hospitalrdquo he addedDoctors at KEMs emergency medical room declared her dead on arrival After finding suspicious bluish black coloured marks on Roshnirsquos neck and sent the dead body to postmortem with the marks During postmortem doctors issued primary opinion as lsquoAsphyxia as a result of ligature compression of neck unnatural Necessary samples preservedrsquoBased on the findings Mahadeo Nimbalkar Senior Inspector of RAK Marg Police station directed cops to question Rajesh about it Meanwhile panchnama of the house was carried out where no signs of hanging were found ldquoInitially he was giving evasive answers but after consistent questioning he spilled the binsrdquo said an officialDuring confession Rajesh told that Roshni used to consistently ask him about his extramarital affair which would lead to often fights between two Tired of consistent fights with his wife Rajesh decided to end her life and allegedly strangulated her by a blue shawl when she was asleepldquoAs per the postmortem report statement of deceased brothers and questioning of accused we have booked him on early hours of Friday under IPC section 302 murder The accused is in police custodyrdquo said DCP Zone 4 Prashant Kadam