UP: BAMS doctor arrested for killing doctor wife, cremating body nearly 400 km away

Lakhimpur: In a shocking incident, an Ayurveda doctor has been arrested for allegedly murdering and cremating the body of his wife, also a doctor to conceal the crime. Moreover, the police have also detained the doctor's father in relation to the murder case. 

The 34-year-old doctor's wife who had gone missing on November 26, was finally found after the doctor confessed his crime while getting interrogated by the police. 

The incident took place in UP's Lakhimpur Kheri district on November 26 when the doctor murdered his wife and in order to keep the police from suspecting him, he filed a missing complaint at the police station.  

The couple used to run a hospital in the district. The accused and his wife both were BAMS degree holders and had been running Gauri Hospital on Sitapur Road.

On the same day, the accused locked the dead body in a suitcase and went to their clinic in Gauri Chikitsalaya and called an ambulance and cremated the body nearly 400 km away in Garh Mukteshwar, Arun Kumar Singh, ASP, Kheri informed NDTV

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The police said the accused told the police during interrogation that during an altercation, he pushed his wife, who hit her head and died. The death took place on November 26. The cause of her death was an injury to her head.

The accused and his father then allegedly stashed the body in the basement of their hospital. They kept the body inside a metal box and used an ambulance to carry it to Garh Mukteshwar. They then cremated the body.

Circle officer (Lakhimpur Sadar) Sandeep Singh informed TOI, "We received a complaint on November 27 from the accused that his wife had gone missing. He told police that she had left her home with some valuables. Once we learnt more about the couple's marital issues, we put the accused on our watch list. During the investigation, we found that the accused and his father had cremated the doctor woman's body in Garh Mukteshwar. They had informed an ambulance driver that the woman died in an accident and took her body in the vehicle for quick cremation."

The victim's father has lodged a police complaint against the family for murder. The duo were arrested on Monday and confessed to their crime on Tuesday. 

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