Man kills newlywed wife for insurance money in Jharkhand

A man was arrested for murdering his newly married wife and making it appear like an accident to claim insurance money in Jharkhand’s Hazaribagh district, police said on Tuesday.

Padama Out Post (OP) in charge, Sanchit Kumar Dubey, told PTI on Tuesday, that 30-year-old Mukesh Kumar Mehta had murdered his wife, Sevanti Kumari (23), whom he had married four months back on October 9 night, and staged it as a road mishap to claim the insurance money of Rs 30



lakh. 

“We received a complaint from passersby on October 9 about a couple lying injured due to a road mishap along the Padama-Itkhori stretch of NH-33. We rushed to the spot and brought the deceased, Sevanti Kumari, and her husband, who pretended to be unconscious, to Sadar Hospital.

“While the wife was declared dead and the body was sent for post-mortem, the husband, who had sustained superficial injury, underwent treatment,” the police officer said.