Guwahati: In yet another shocking murder case, a husband fatally bludgeoned his wife in Guwahati city on Sunday.
The incident took place in Dhirenpara locality of the city.
The husband struck his wife with a heavy item, leaving her lying in a pool of blood at their rental home on DK Path in Dhirenpara
The deceased wife was identified as Sufiya Khatun.
According to reports, when the owner of the property in Dhirenpara where they were renting it out heard screaming last night, he hurried to investigate what had happened.
Owner Jaharul Ali found the woman there, lying on the floor in a bloodied condition. He rushed her to the hospital, where doctors declared her dead while undergoing treatment.
Meanwhile, after committing the crime, the husband and other family members fled from the crime scene in Dhirenpara.
The police opened an investigation into the situation as soon as they learned about it.
The accused husband was identified by officials as Nurul Haque.
According to reports, he allegedly fled the scene and has not been located as of yet.
Moreover, it has come to light that the family moved into the residence on a rental basis about four months ago.
Crimes have increased in Guwahati, with regular murder instances being one among them after the horrifying murder case in Noonmati came to light last month.
Bondona Kalita, the prime accused in the matter allegedly killed her husband and mother-in-law and chopped the body into pieces and stored them in a refrigerator.
She was not alone in the horrifying act and was helped by two accomplices, one of whom was her lover. Police suspect the motive behind entire incident to be adultery on Bondona’s part.
According to them, Bondona along with her accomplices went on to dispose the body parts across Meghalaya. Later on, as investigations went forward, police took the accused there to locate the body parts.
Since the incident came to the fore, Bondona Kalita repeatedly tried to derail the investigations by changing her statements.