Staff Correspondent
Diglipur, Feb 28: In a shocking incident, a 25 years old policeman killed his 19 year old wife over matrimonial dispute yesterday at around 4.00 PM, at Naveen Nagar, Diglipur.
According to reports available here, Mr. Ratan Das, working in Police Marine Force tied hands of his wife, Shilp Bepari, with bed and murdered her by mercilessly beating her with a stick.
“They were newly married, infact nearly a year back both were married,” Mr. SBS Tyagi the Superintendent of Police told Andaman Sheekha today.
According to reports for initial six months both husband and wife were living in Port Blair and after that they moved to Diglipur on Transfer. Since last six months they were having regular dispute in family, sources said.
“In two occasions the matter was reported to police but later the case was settled amicably. This is still not clear whether the mother and sister of Ratan Das were present in the house while Ratan was beating his wife,” a senior officer of Diglipur region told Andaman Sheekha over phone.
According to reports available here a case has been registered in this regard under section 302/498. Ratan Das has already been arrested by Police and produced to court today, from where he was sent to Judicial Custody.
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