Fearing that he would lose his 'westernised' wife who was three months pregnant, Indian man kills her.
A 37-year-old Indian migrant in Italy killed his pregnant wife because she loved wearing western clothes and he wanted to punish her for going against Indian traditions.
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The Indian -- whose name was given as Singhj Kulbir -- told police in Piacenza city in northern Italy that he strangled to death his 27-year-old wife -- named as Kaur Balwinde -- before throwing her corpse in the Po river, a news agency reported.
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Investigators said Kulbir, who worked for an agricultural company, killed his wife to punish her for dressing like a Westerner against Indian traditions. Balwinde's body was found floating Sunday in the Po river near Piacenza, a total of 153 days after she went missing.
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The mother of a five-year-old boy, Balwinde was three months pregnant, according to the PiacenzaSera news website.
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Another Italian news agency said the accused killed his "excessively westernised" young Indian wife because he feared he would lose her.
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The woman's father reported her disappearance May 1.
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Her husband told the military police that he was sure she had left home because she wanted to leave him.
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Kulbir, however, has no criminal record.
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He confessed when his wife's body was found on the river bank near S Nazzaro di Monticelli D'Ongina. The body was spotted by two girls walking in the area.
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A report said Balwinde lived for about 10 years with her husband in Baselico Duce village, on a farm where the man looked after the cattle.
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She was a housewife and occasionally did domestic jobs and was known and liked by other mothers with children attending the local kindergarten. The other women had organised a search party when she disappeared.
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Her husband too led a normal, quiet life and was seen taking their little boy to school.
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The woman's family has lived in Tuscany for around 20 years.
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