Berhampur: A man and his two lovers were arrested in Odisha’s Ganjam district for the alleged murder of his wife of 12 years.
According to sources, the incident took place at Nuagaon village under Bellaguntha police limits on Monday. A daily wager, Santosh Naik (30), informed his mother-in-law Shanta through a phone call that Puja Naik (28) had committed suicide by hanging. However, she was not allowed to enter the house. She later saw her daughter’s body wrapped in cloth on the ground.
Shanta alleged that her daughter was having frequent quarrels with her husband over his illicit relationship with two women – Anita Naik (26) and Sruti Parida (21). “Puja’s husband and two of his female friends frequently physically and mentally tortured her. They might have killed her and painted her death as suicide,” she alleged in her police complaint.
Police seized the body and arrested the three on the basis of prima facie evidence.
The couple were parents to four children, three daughters and a son.