Hubby, two killers held for Howrah woman’s murder

HOWRAH: The cops on Saturday arrested three persons for the murder of a woman whose head, intestines and upper part of the torso were found in a bag floating in the Hooghly off Jetia Ghat in Bally on Thursday morning.
The probe revealed that 28-year-old victim Somi Rajak’s husband Upendra, 35, hired contract killers Saklin Khan, 32, and Dilwar Khan, 40, who then chopped up her body inside the couple’s Ganesh Chatterjee Lane flat in Shibpur on Thursday.The police are still looking for the rest of the body.
During interrogation, Upendra confessed that he mixed sleeping pills into a glass of fruit juice for his wife on Wednesday night. Dilwar and Saklin arrived at the flat after midnight and hacked Somi to death. They then placed the chopped parts in a bag. All this while the couple’s eight-year-old daughter and five-year-old son were sleeping in another room. The trio then threw the bag into the river from Jetia ghat in Bally.
Police said Upendra, who owns a laundry, had married Somi 11 years ago. For the past four years, Upendra had suspected Somi of having affairs with several men. “I used to remain busy in my laundry all day. In my absence, men would visit our flat. Somi would often party with these men till late in the night. At times, I would go home and find another man. When I protested, she insulted me in front of them. That was why I decided to kill her,” Upendra said. He said hired Dilwar from Shibpur on a Rs 1 lakh contract to murder Somi. Dilwar was also paid Rs 30,000 in advance and sought help from Saklin.
DC north Amit Rathore said, “We have achieved a breakthrough in the case with help from CCTV footage.”