- The woman, identified locally as Pinky, 23, was expecting twins.
- She and her husband, Sukhdev, quarreled and he brutally attacked her.
- The alleged killer fled his home before being arrested and charged.
A wife who was six months pregnant with twins was allegedly tied to a bed and burned alive by her husband, in a murder case that has horrified India.
Police said the 23-year-old woman, identified only as Pinky, was killed by her husband, Sukhdev, after getting into an argument at their home in Buled Nangal village in Amritsar’s Rayya area, near the border with Pakistan, on Sunday. Friday.
Sukhdev allegedly assaulted her, tied her to a bed in the front yard of his home and set her on fire, police said.
Pinky tragically died on the spot, while the alleged killer fled before being hunted down, arrested and charged with her murder.
Police said the couple had a strained relationship and often argued over a variety of topics.
Police said the 23-year-old woman, called only Pinky (pictured), was murdered by her husband, Sukhdev, after having an argument at their home.
Pinky tragically died on the spot, while the alleged killer fled before the police chased him down, arrested him and charged him with her murder.
India’s National Women’s Commission said in a post to X: ‘Shocked by the horrific incident in Amritsar where a man allegedly set his pregnant wife on fire. The brutality of this act is unimaginable.
‘[NCW Chair] Rekha Sharma has written a letter to [the Director General of Police of) Punjab to arrest the perpetrator and submit an action report in three days.’
India’s growing problem of violence against women and girls is well documented. The BMJ reported that one in three women in India is likely to have been subjected to violence at the hands of an ‘intimate partner.’
The research suggested that just one in 10 of these women file formal reports to the police.
According to survey data, physical violence was the most common form of abuse, with more than a quarter of women reporting instances of this. Sexual and emotional abuse happened to 13% and 7% of women respectively.
Earlier this month, three men were arrested in Jharkhand, in the east of India, over the murder of a mother who accused two boys of gang-raping her deaf and mute teenage daughter.
The 50-year-old mother, who has not been named, was working in a field when the fathers of the two 14-year-old boys allegedly hacked her to death with the help of a relative.
Cops believe the murder was a brutal act of revenge after she confided in police following the alleged rape of her 19-year-old daughter.
‘The motive appears to be revenge for the police action initiated against the sons and the land dispute with the victim,’ local police reported, adding that they had recovered a weapon.
Two fourteen-year-old boys are suspected of having broken the lock to the woman’s home in Gumla village while she was asleep one night last month, before distracting her in order to kidnap her deaf-mute daughter.
They then dragged her to a school building and raped her, according to the investigating officer.