A man in Kerala has been arrested for allegedly killing his wife in Puthenchira, near Mala of Thrissur district on Thursday. Shamzad, a native Vadakkekara in Ernakulam district, allegedly killed his wife, 30-year-old Rahmath at their rented house around 5.30 am on Thursday. The police say that some family issues resulted in the murder.
On Thursday morning, after the murder, Shamzad along with his two children, aged nine and three, went to his house in Vadakkekara. He dropped his children at his house and immediately left from there. However, his behaviour raised some doubts and his family called up the couple’s neighbors in Puthenchira and asked them to check on Rahmath. That is when the neighbours found Rahmath dead inside the house.
Later, Shamzad was taken into police custody from a friend's house in Ernakulam.
Shamzad had been in the UAE for 10 years and had returned to India and started a fish selling business. The police have said that the exact cause of death will be known only after the post mortem. However, as per a primary investigation, the police believe that Rahmath was strangled to death.
Meanwhile, on Thursday, the Mala police arrested a 67-year-old man for murdering his brother. Anto, the younger brother, was allegedly beaten to death by Paul, his elder brother, on Tuesday evening. Paul had gone to the house of a local panchayat member and confessed that he had killed his brother. Later, he surrendered to the police.
In another case of murder in Thrissur in June, a 53-year-old man had been arrested for allegedly drowning his friend in a river. The victim, Jaison, who had given Rs 5 lakh as debt to the accused Simon, had asked him to return the money. After a tussle over the issue, Simon pushed Jaison into a river. Though the post mortem report showed that the cause of death was drowning, later, it was proved that Jaison was pushed into the river.