Man kills wife, cooks up fake story to mislead police in Odisha

Koraput police claimed to have cracked the mystery of a woman’s alleged murder and claimed that she was killed by her husband with the help of two accomplices over a family feud. The husband had cooked up a fake story after committing the crime, informed Sunabeda SDPO.

The accused identified as Mahendra Khara and his two aides were arrested in this connection.

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“Key accused Mahendra had hatched a plan to kill his wife around eight days ago. He and his two friends executed the murder plan on Monday night when the couple was returning from an Aadhaar Kendra in Nandapur. Firstly, accused Mahesh Mali beat the victim woman with a wooden lathi (baton) and she collapsed on the ground. Later, Mahendra beat his wife to death. She died on the spot,” Sunabeda SDPO Manabrata Satpathy stated while briefing in a presser.

Preliminary probe suggests that the woman was killed over a family feud.

Worth mentioning, accused Mahendra had hatched the story that some miscreants killed his wife after tying him to a tree at Hariamunda village under Nandapur Police limits in Koraput district on Monday night. As per the story, the couple was returning from Nandapur when miscreants attacked the duo near Handaltota.