Man slits wife’s throat, walks to cops in Mumbai
Had spent just the previous night at Charkop police station for abusing her as he did not like the food she had prepared.
A 46-year-old man killed his wife by slitting her throat at their Kandivli residence after an argument over household matters on Sunday morning. The Charkop police had warned the accused, Sanghamitra Suryavanshi, only an hour before he killed his wife.
She had approached the police for help on Saturday night when he came home under the influence of alcohol and started abusing her.
The police arrested Suryavanshi on charges of murder and will be produced in court on Monday.
According to the police, Suryavanshi, who is a resident of Jeevanjyot society in Charkop sector 5, Kandivli (West), has been unemployed for some time. His wife Preeti, 39, worked as a manager with a private firm in Churchgate. The couple’s two children — Push, 14, and Yesh, 12 — had left home at 5.30am to attend NCC training in the navy wing at Churchgate and were not at home at the time of the incident.
“On Saturday night, the couple had a heated argument because Preeti had not cooked good food for him. Suryavanshi was under the influence of alcohol and started abusing and beating her. After that, Preeti approached the Charkop police station for help. She complained that her husband had been harassing her,” said police inspector Praveen Patil of the Charkop police station.
“We registered a non-cognisable offence against Suryavanshi and he was kept in the police station till 6.30am. He was later allowed to go following a warning that he would not harass his wife again,” said Patil.
“Suryavanshi, who is a very short-tempered man, reached home and started fighting with his wife,” said Patil. He started packing his bags to leave Mumbai. Preeti told him that she would either go along with him or commit suicide. Suryavanshi then said to her that he would kill her himself.
“A furious Suryavanshi slit Preeti’s throat and stabbed her in the abdomen and chest with a kitchen knife,” said Patil. “After the crime was committed, Suryavanshi came to the police station and surrendered. The police rushed to the spot and sent the body for a post-mortem to Bhagwati hospital,” said a police official.