Amit Chunara, a resident of Baranpura Chunaravas, sells vegetables to support his wife, two daughters, and an 11-year-old son. While Amit’s eldest daughter lives in Akbarpur village of Khambhat taluka, the other daughter and son live with their parents. For some time now, Amit has been suspecting his wife of having an affair with a person from Khambhat, due to which there were frequent quarrels between the two.
In the early morning of Friday, the husband with the help of friends strangled his sleeping wife to death with a pillow. The wife made an attempt to escape when her husband was pressing her mouth with the pillow. Meanwhile, their daughter who was sleeping in the other room woke up by the sound and saw her father with his two friends killing their mother. Amit told his crying daughter, “Don’t cry. I will bring another mom for you, and if you tell anyone I will kill you too.” Then, he fled the spot after giving money to his friends who helped in the crime.
The frightened daughter said, ” I saw my father sitting on the chest of my mother and choking her with a pillow. I woke up as mom was suffocating and her legs hit hard. I woke up and my father threatened to kill me if I tried telling anyone and will bring another mother for me.
The family of the deceased reached the spot after the message. After the incident was reported, Wadi Police also reached the spot, took possession of the body, and sent it to the Sayaji Hospital for postmortem.
A.C.P S.G Patil said that Amit Chunara had a doubt that his wife Sapna had an affair with a man from Khambhat. In suspicion, he killed his wife by pressing her mouth with a pillow around 5 am in the morning. An investigation is going on. Police have registered a case of murder against Amit and are in the process of arresting him. Other details will be brought out after the killer is arrested.
