Fit of rage: Woman 'hammers' husband to death over tiff

In a shocking incident in Rohini's Narela area, a 26-year-old women murdered her husband by bludgeoning him to death with a hammer. The woman had picked up a fight with her husband over a trivial issue of buying medicines.

After the fight, when the husband, Kamal went to sleep, he was attacked in front of his four-year-old daughter. According to the family's neighbours, after murdering her husband, she sat outside her house and was seeing a horse riding procession passing through her colony and later returned to her house. The woman, Khushi, has been arrested.

The incident took place in the couple's house in Narela Sector A-5 on Monday night. The deceased, Kamal lived with his family of his wife, Khushi and three children. He used to work at a shoe manufacturing factory in Narela.

At around 9.30 pm, Kamal had returned form work and started arguing with his wife over buying medicines. The couple argued for some time and later the fight stopped and Kamal decided to sleep. Two of her children had gone to their rooms but her four-year-old daughter stayed inside the room.

When Kamal started to doze off, Khushi in a fit of rage picked up a hammer lying around and started to assault him. She delivered multiple blows on his head and bludgeoned him to death in front of her daughter.

After murdering him, she later got out of her home and stood outside for a while and saw a horse riding procession pass by her house for a couple of minutes. "We knew the couple for some time and we could not believe that she would kill Kamal. We never thought that the couple used to fight this bitterly.

She had stood outside for some time and saw a procession passing by. The police told us that's when she killed her husband," said Laxmi Devi, a resident. However, the police did not know about this and sent in a team the next morning when the neighbours complained of a foul smell emanating from the house. After the police had found the body, senior officers were deputed at the spot.

"We had received a PCR call about the incident. After the body was found, we immediately sealed the house and sent in the Additional Deputy Commissioner to the spot. After the weapon of offence was recovered, we took the woman to Narela police station and questioned her," said Deputy Commissioner of Police (Rohini) MN Tiwari.

The woman had told the police that she had attacked him in a fit of rage and did not mean to kill him. The three children are currently under the care of their relatives. The deceased's body has been sent for post-mortem to a local mortuary after which it will be handed over to the relatives.