Woman, employee held for murdering husband
April 12th, 2011 - 8:09 pm ICT by IANSMumbai, April 12 (IANS) A woman and her employee have been arrested for allegedly smothering to death her husband, a Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader who was found murdered in his sleep, police said Tuesday.
Rupa Khot and her accomplice Sunil Chavan were presented before a magistrate who remanded them in police custody till April 20, a police official said. A day earlier Andheri NCP leader and cable operator Vilas Khot, 46, was found dead in his bed early Monday.
“While Khot was fast asleep on his bed, the two accused sneaked inside the bedroom and smothered him with a pillow. The murder took place around 2 a.m. yesterday (early Monday) and he succumbed soon thereafter,” investigating officer of the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC) Deepak Bagwe told IANS.
Asked how Chavan helped Rupa in committing the crime, Bagwe hinted that they would probe all angles, including an affair between the two accused.
While Rupa was a homemaker, Chavan was a collection agent in Khot’s cable company.
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