Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 30: A man today murdered his wife following a quarrel with her and later made an abortive bid on his life, in Paloura area of city outskirts.
“Ashok Singh (52) son of Shivdev Singh, resident of Toph Sherkhanian, had a quarrel with his wife, Nisha Devi (45), this evening. Both exchanged heated words and in a fit of rage Ashok hit the head of his wife with a rod, resulting into her on the spot death”, SDPO West, Pranav Mahajan said.
He said jittered over the unintentional death of her wife, the man then tried to attempt suicide by getting himself electrocuted with a power transformer. However, he survived with some burn injuries.
“On getting information, the police reached the spot and shifted the body of the deceased woman to mortuary room of Government Medical College and Hospital, Jammu for the postmortem to be conducted tomorrow”, the officer said, adding the injured man was also hospitalized for treatment.
“A case FIR No 78/2018 under relevant sections has been registered in this connection at police station Nowabad and further investigations started”, he added.
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