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Jharkhand News: Wife kills alcoholic husband who habitually assaulted her

THE JHARKHAND STORY NETWORK   Daltonganj, May 19: Panki police in Palamu district on Sunday retrieved a highly decomposed body of a…

Jharkhand News: Wife kills alcoholic husband who habitually assaulted her

THE JHARKHAND STORY NETWORK

 

Daltonganj, May 19: Panki police in Palamu district on Sunday retrieved a highly decomposed body of a male from a soak pit at village Kekargarh.

The decomposed body was identified as of Budhan Oraon (26).

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He was done to death by his wife, Lalita Oraon (23).

Lalita in her confession to police, narrated how and why she killed her man. She killed her with a Tangi, a small iron tool.

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She killed her man because he was a terrible alcoholic and used to beat her day and night.

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On the intervening night of Friday/Saturday the couple had a bitter fight. Lalita was thrashed hard. She, in her defence or in a rush of blood, picked up a Tangi and finished him.

She threw his body in the soak pit. However, when the bad odour began coming, she knew it was her end of hiding the body.

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She spilled all the beans. Police officer Rajesh Ranjan said, “This Sunday, in the presence of a magistrate and video camera, the body of Oraon was retrieved from the soak pit and sent to the MMCH Daltonganj for the post-mortem.”

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Police recovered the Tangi used in the crime.

Lalita was arrested on charges of murder and remanded to judicial custody late on Sunday in Daltonganj.

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