Woman, lover held for killing husband in Bareilly, staging it as suicide

The victim was identified as Kehr Pal Singh (35). The gruesome incident unfolded in the Thakurdwara locality of Bareilly on April 13, police said on Friday.

According to the police, Rekha confessed to lacing her husband’s tea with rat poison. She then called Pintu, a resident of Bijnor, and together they strangled Singh to death before hanging the body to mislead authorities. Pintu fled the scene, while Rekha bolted the door of the room from inside and began crying. Neighbours, alerted by her screams, peeped through a window and found the body of her husband hanging at around 5pm. They later informed police.

Additional superintendent of police (ASP), north, Mukesh Chandra Mishra, said: “The postmortem report clearly cites death by strangulation even though the locked room suggested suicide. Doctors have preserved the viscera for forensic testing to confirm poisoning.”