New Delhi: In a suspected dowry death case, a 30-year-old jobless man strangled his pregnant wife to death here before surrendering at a police station 12 hours later, an official said yesterday. Vinod strangled four-month pregnant Pinky, 24, while she was asleep late Saturday night at his house in Bajrang Enclave in Najafgarh area in west Delhi, police said. The suspect surrendered before police yesterday. Pinky’s parents alleged that he used to beat her up for dowry, police said. “He told us that he had a heated argument with his wife, after which she went to sleep. He later strangled her,” said a police official. The couple had a three-year-old daughter, police said.
One killed in Bengal blast
Kolkata: A person was killed and four others of a family were seriously injured after a bomb exploded in their house yesterday in West Bengal’s Hooghly district, police said. “One person was killed and four others were hospitalised with serious injuries after a bomb went off inside their house,” an officer of Rishra police station said. The blast occurred yesterday morning in Rishra, some 23km from here. The family which returned from Gaya in Bihar in the morning, opened a bag after which the bomb kept inside it, exploded. “The bomb squad is inspecting the site and we are probing the matter,” added the officer. Family members have alleged that the bag was exchanged in the train during their way back from Gaya in Bihar.
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