Man kills wife with an axe over suspected extramarital affair

In a shocking incident, a man has allegedly killed his wife on Saturday over the suspicion of her of having an extramarital affair.

The reported murder incident occurred at Shankarpur area of Sahaspur police station area in Dehradun.

According to Sahaspur police, the accused Rajkumar Singh, who originally hails from Bijnor district in Uttar Pradesh, had furiously hit his wife, identified as Kusumlata, several times with axe, resulting in her death.

The deceased woman and her accused husband were tenants at the house of Jaipal Singh, who reported the matter to Selaqui police post on Saturday claiming that he found Kusumlata lying face down in a pool of blood inside her room and Rajkumar was leaving the house with an axe.

On his complaint, police arrested Rajkumar from Shankarpur colony and charged him under section 302 (murder) for his wife’s murder. “During interrogation, Rajkumar has confessed of killing his wife as he suspected her of having an affair with some other man,” said Pankaj Devrani, in charge of Sahaspur police station.