Magistrate’s wife tries to burn him alive, held
December 7th, 2010 - 5:21 pm ICT by IANSRaipur, Dec 7 (IANS) The wife of a district judicial magistrate in Chhattisgarh was arrested for attempting to set her husband on fire, a senior police officer said Tuesday.
The arrest was made late Monday from the state’s industrial town Korba, some 220 km from here, after judicial magistrate K.P. Singh Bhadoria registered a complaint against his wife Mannu for dousing him with petrol and trying to set him afire.
“We acted on the complaint promptly and arrested her under section 307 of the IPC (Indian Penal Code). She has been presented in the court of the chief judicial magistrate and is in judicial custody,” additional superintendent of police (Korba) T.R. Koshima told IANS over phone.
He added that the two hailed from Madhya Pradesh and were not on good terms with each other for the past few months.
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