Mumbai: In a possible case of honour killing, a nine months pregnant woman was killed in Thane near here. The assaulter did not even spare the woman’s husband and their unborn child.
Thane Police has sent a team to Uttar Pradesh to track down the family of the woman after she and her husband were brutally murdered in their house in Daighar area near Mumbra on Thursday. Neighbours and some friends of the victims told the police that some relatives had visited the victims’ place.
The police are currently in the process of prearing sketches of the accused.
The deceased have been identified as Vijay Shankar Yadav, 30 and his wife Sufiya Abrar Mansoori alias Priya Vijay Shankar Yadav, 22.
The couple was from Uttar Pradesh and were residing in room number 4, Sagar Building, near Gurukul school, Daighar village, Thane. According to the police, both were killed with a sharp knife. As per the post-mortem report, they were killed 48 hours before their bodies was found.
Police said, “The doctor told us that the foetus was forced out of the womb because the accused punched her on the stomach first and then stabbed her two-three times. The baby’s legs came out with injuries. The baby died due to suffocation.”
Giving more information, Abhishek Trimukhe said, DCP said, “The neighbours called the control room when they encountered stinking smell from the victim’s house. “After that a team of Shil-Daighar police went on the spot. They found three bodies lying in a pool of blood.”
The Shil-Daighar police along with the Thane crime branch officials are jointly investigating the matter and a team is already headed to Uttar-Pradesh from where the couple hails.
“In 2015, they eloped to get married and came to Daighar. We had spoken to boy’s family but they said that they did not have problem with their son’s marriage. We are yet to confront with girl’s family,” police said.
The police found that Yadav’s throat was slit and Sufiya was stabbed three times on her stomach. Police said that the neighbours and a few friends said that a few people had come to meet the couple a day before Id. So it is suspected that its honor killing and the murder would be due to marriage. Sufiya was reportedly converted to Hindu relgion, which was not accepted by the family. Further probe is on, police said.
