Maharashtra: Man held for killing wife over domestic dispute

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Police have arrested a 32-year-old man from Boisar in Maharashtra's Palghar district on the charge of killing his wife, a senior official said on Wednesday.

The accused was arrested from Lokhandi Pada, he said.

Addressing a press conference, Palghar Superintendent of Police Balasaheb Patil said the victim Mohini Milan Pawar, 30, was found lying in a pool of blood in her house on Sunday morning.

Her sister lodged a complaint, based on which a case was registered against the victim's husband under Indian Penal Code (IPC) section 302 (murder).

"The police probe team got a tip-off that the accused was about to escape to Gujarat. After getting this information, a police team rushed to the Boisar railway station and laid a trap. The man was nabbed at the railway station itself within five hours," he said.

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During his interrogation, the accused told the police that he killed his wife using an electric wire and also stabbed her as a fallout of a domestic dispute, the official said.

The arrested accused was produced before a local court which remanded him in police custody till July 27, the police said.

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