Woman slits hubby's throat, held

LUDHIANA: The Salem Tabri police on Saturday arrested a woman and her paramour for allegedly killing her husband.
They slit the throat of Suresh Mandal, 32, with a saw blade in the wee hours on Saturday on roof of the labour quarters in Sekhewal village.
The duo wrapped the body with a blanket, stuffed in a sack and hid it under the cot in her rented accommodation.
The elder daughter of the deceased allegedly saw her mother and her paramour dumping the body and alerted the neighbours, who in turn informed brother of the deceased. He found the body in the sack and sounded the police.
Suresh was a labourer. The accused were identified as Bijli Devi and her paramour Akhilesh Kumar.
The police have registered a case under Sections 302 (murder), 201 (Causing disappearance of evidence of offence) and 34 (acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention) of the IPC against Bijli and Akhilesh on the statement of Suresh's brother Dev Anand Mandal.
The police have also found the weapon used in the crime.