Wife kills abusive husband, hides body

Jaipur: Annoyed over repeated quarrels, a woman allegedly murdered her husband and walled in the corpse in their house in Chomu town near here, police said.

"The woman Savitri (40), a resident of Rampura village, said she was disturbed with her husband Kaluram's attitude as he used to beat her often," Circle Officer Chomu Lalchand said.

On January 5, she hit 40-year-old Kaluram, a mason, with an object and strangulated him. She hid his body in the space under the stairs of their house and covered it with a wall, he said.

However, the incident came to light today after she told her brother about it.

Police found the walled in corpse and a postmortem was conducted, he said, adding an investigation was on.