Ghaziabad: Woman stabbed to death by husband in Khoda

Police identified the suspect as Lokesh Kumar Gangwar and the woman as Pooja Gangwar. The couple hail from Bareilly district, have been married for about eight years and have a seven-year-old daughter.

According to Pooja's brother Deepak Kumar, who lives in a rented apartment in Prem Vihar Colony in Khoda, the couple lived in the same building. On Friday evening, Pooja's husband called her to meet him near a sewer, barely 50 metres from their house, and she hurriedly left the house.

“I went after her along with my younger brother (Suraj Kumar). Later, we found her lying on the ground near the drain and her husband was repeatedly stabbing her with a knife. He fled when he saw us coming while locals also gathered there. We took our sister to a hospital in Noida where she soon succumbed,” Deepak stated in the first report registered at Khoda police station under Section 103(1) (murder) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.

“My brother-in-law Lokesh was unemployed and did nothing to earn money. Instead, Pooja was working in a company in Noida to earn a living. She came out of her office on Friday and later the incident took place. Lokesh inflicted three serious injuries on her neck, abdomen and chest and fled the scene… We are not aware of any immediate motive that triggered the incident,” said Pooja's younger brother Suraj.

According to police, Lokesh is unemployed and addicted to alcohol.

“The relationship between the couple was not cordial and a domestic dispute led to the incident. Lokesh (from Khoda) was arrested and booked for murder,” said Anand Prakash Mishra, station house officer of Khoda police station, on Saturday.