Calcutta:
Frequent arguments over her social media activities and the friends she made online led to a man in West Bengal slitting his wife’s throat with a vegetable cutter on Friday, police said. The man fled after the murder and the couple’s minor son returned home to find his mother lying in a pool of blood.
Speaking outside their home at Harinarayanpur in Joynagar in South 24 Parganas district, the boy told reporters that his parents, Parimal and Aparna Baidya, often quarreled and that his father had threatened to cut his mother into pieces several times. “I came home and saw her body lying there,” he said, adding that he then alerted neighbors.
A neighbor said Parimal was a Boti (an instrument used to cut vegetables and meat) and attacked his wife, who died from the injuries.
Police sources said the couple had frequent arguments over Aparna’s social media activities and some friends she had made through social media platforms. “We suspect that the man killed her because she did not approve of her activities on social media. Aparna was 32 years old,” an official said.
Parimal is missing and a team has been formed to locate him. The autopsy on Aparna’s body has been conducted and the murder weapon has been recovered.