STATE TIMES NEWS
SRINAGAR: Police on Monday claimed to have solved a murder case in north Kashmir’s Bandipora District by arresting the victim’s wife and her paramour.
Police Station Hajin received information that body of Fayaz Ahmad Dar, a resident of Vijipara Hajin, was lying in the bathroom of his house.
It was recovered and Special Investigation Team (SIT) was constituted to probe the case, a police spokesman said here Monday.
During investigation, the deceased’s wife Zamrooda Begum was questioned about the murder of her husband but she denied having any information about the incident.
She was further questioned about her phone number and she stated that she does not have any mobile phone from last two years.
However, her claim was contradicted by her teenage children, who stated their mother was having a mobile phone and was using it covertly, the spokesman said.
He said the investigation revealed the deceased had doubts on her wife of having illicit relations with Showkat Ahmad Bhat, a resident of Kumina Baharabad Village of Hajin, due to which some differences had developed in their wedlock.
Accordingly, Bhat was brought into police custody for questioning, during which he said he had illegal affairs with Zamrooda and had grown closer to her during past few years, the spokesman said.
The spokesman said the investigation revealed that few days ago, Bhat and Zamrooda hatched a criminal conspiracy to murder Dar.
On the intervening night of 2nd and 3rd July, Zamrooda contacted her paramour and asked him to come to her house and kill her husband, police said. At about 10:30 PM, Zamrooda had kept the window of the room open to let Bhat in. They went to the room of the deceased and killed him in his sleep. Bhat held the deceased tightly by his hands and sat on his chest while Zamrooda pressed tightly on the neck until his last breath, the spokesman said. He said the duo has been arrested.
