Kolkata doctor allegedly kills wife by slitting her throat

Barasat: In a shocking incident, a 28-year-old government doctor allegedly killed his wife by slashing her throat with a knife in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district and surrendered before the police on Sunday, officials said.

The incident happened in Helencha in the Bagda police station area, they said.

The doctor, who works at the state-run SSKM Hospital, went to the police station in the morning and told the on-duty officers that he killed his wife, police said. The doctor's wife was a homoeopathy doctor. 

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When police went to his house, they found the body of his wife, 25-year-old Ratnatama, lying in a pool of blood, a senior officer said.

The accused was arrested and a murder case was filed after Ratnatama’s father Rajib Kumar Dey lodged a police complaint, he said.

The couple was married for around two years, he added. 

“We are probing what led the doctor to murder his wife. What we have so far known is that the couple mostly lived separately,” said the police officer, refusing to share further details citing the ongoing investigation. 

As per a media report in The Statesman, the couple had been fighting for an extended period and lived separately for eight months. However, on Saturday, the situation took a turn when the wife called his husband to take her back to his marital house. 

Following this, the doctor visited his wife's parental house, had dinner and took her back to his house. The next day, the shocking revelation was discovered after the doctor confessed to the police that he had killed his wife by slitting her throat with a knife. 

The body of the deceased has been sent for postmortem examination to ascertain the exact cause of death. An investigation into the case is under process.

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