Woman brutally attacked by spouse succumbs to injuries

Two days after a man brutally beaten up his wife at their residence in Alour village here, the woman succumbed to her injuries at a hospital in Chandigarh on Saturday.

A property-related dispute was said to be the cause behind the incident. After the death of the victim, the police registered a murder case against the suspect and arrested him.

As per information, when Paramjit Kaur was alone in the house on Thursday, her husband Kashmira Singh, who runs a tea stall, came home and started arguments with his wife over some issue related with a property. When the dispute escalated, he locked his wife in the room and attacked her fatally. She suffered fractures on her legs and critical injuries on her other body parts. When residents reached the scene after hearing screams of the victim, the suspect fled the scene. Afterwards, the people took the woman to the Khanna Civil Hospital, from where she was referred to the Government Medical College and Hospital in Sector 32, Chandigarh.

The deceased’s brother Gurdeep Singh said Kashmira used to beat his sister often since their marriage. On Thursday, he came home drunk and demanded his wife to transfer the plot in his name, which was in the name of Paramjit Kaur. When she refused, the suspect brutally assaulted her. The suspect hit her legs with an iron rod.

SHO Sukhwinderpal Singh of the Sadar police station said the police arrested Kashmira and a case of murder was registered against him. He was produced before a court, from where he was sent on a two-day police remand.

Meanwhile, family members of the deceased demanded death penalty for the suspect.