Palghar, Jul 23 (PTI) A court in Maharashtra’s Palghar district on Wednesday remanded a woman and her paramour to police custody till July 30, a day after they were arrested on charges of killing her husband and burying the body under tiles at home.
The sessions court at Vasai sent the woman, Chaman Devi (28), and her paramour Monu Sharma (20) to police custody and their interrogation will help in establishing the motive behind the gruesome murder and find out other details of the crime, an officer said.
Chaman Devi and Sharma were arrested from Pune on Tuesday evening, a day after the decomposed body of her husband, Vijay Chouhan (34), was exhumed from the couple’s home at Gangnipada in Nallasopara, a distant suburb of Mumbai.
According to police, the duo killed Chouhan and buried his body under floor tiles around two weeks ago.
The crime came to light when two brothers of Chouhan went to his home and found a foul smell emanating from the floor. Neighbours informed Chouhan’s brothers that he had not been seen since July 10 and his wife was also missing since July 19, said police.
On being alerted, a police team arrived in the house and exhumed the body in the presence of doctors, forensic experts and local tehsildar.
A Pelhar police team traced Chaman Devi and Sharma to Pune, around 270km from Palghar, and nabbed them.
They have been booked under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) sections 103 (murder), 238 (destruction of evidence) and 3(5) (common intention) and further investigation was underway, according to police. PTI COR RSY
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