MP man allegedly kills wife with pestle on Karwa Chauth, calls police to report crime

A woman was allegedly beaten to death by her husband at their home in Madhya Pradesh's Gwalior on Thursday. The accused, identified as Anand Srivastava, reportedly used a pestle to kill his wife, Madhu Srivastava, before calling the police to inform them about the incident, an official said.

The incident occurred in Tyagi Nagar locality under the jurisdiction of Murar police station in the district. The woman was identified as Madhu Srivastava, and she lived with her husband, Anand Srivastava and two children.

(Representative Image/Sanjeev Verma/ Hindustan Times)The incident took place around 11 am in Tyagi Nagar, coinciding with Karwa Chauth, a Hindu festival during which women fast from sunrise to moonrise for the safety and long life of their husbands.

Murar police station house officer (SHO) Govind Vallabh Bagoli told news agency PTI that officers reached the house after receiving a call from the accused. Madhu's body was found in the bedroom, with Anand sitting nearby.

Also read | Man kills wife and 15-year-old daughter in Ghaziabad apartment, held "The incident occurred around 11 am in Tyagi Nagar. Accused Anand Srivastava has confessed to killing his wife Madhu Srivastava. We reached the house after getting a call from the accused.

The woman's body was found in the bedroom, with Anand sitting nearby," Bagoli told reporters, according to the news agency. The couple had a love marriage and had two children. They lived with the accused's extended family, the police officer added.

A neighbour claimed that Anand was unemployed and had been experiencing mental health problems. The neighbour also said the couple had married in 2010. Also read | Ghaziabad man, 32, stabbed at home by wife’s gym trainer in Vasundhara In a separate incident, a 48-year-old man was arrested for allegedly murdering his wife and his teenage daughter, and injuring another minor daughter at their fourth-floor apartment at Lokpriya Vihar in Ghaziabad’s Khoda, police officers said.

The police identified the suspect as Mohammad Raja Ansari, and his deceased wife as Baby Tabassum, 43. The daughter who died was 15 years old, and the one who survived with injuries is 14 years old, police said.