A 55-year-old Noida man allegedly bludgeoned his wife to death with a hammer over suspicion of infidelity in Sector 15 on Friday, police stated, PTI reported.

According to the police, following an argument, the accused, Nurullah Haider, killed his wife, Asma Khan, by striking her on the head with a hammer.

While the victim was working with a private company in Noida, the accused was unemployed. Both Haider and Asma were an engineering graduate. The couple got married in 2005 and has a daughter and a boy. Their daughter is in Class 8, while their son is a student of engineering.

Deputy Commissioner of Police (Noida) Ram Badan Singh, said, "Today, the Phase 1 Police Station team received information that a person bludgeoned his wife to death using a hammer over suspicion of an affair." It was the couple's son who initially called the police and reported the incident.

"The accused husband was taken into police custody. Haider told police that he had killed his wife because he had suspicion that she was having an extra marital affair,” Amit Kumar, In-charge of Phase 1 police station said. Further investigation is underway.

Rohtak Man Buries Tenant In 7-Feet Deep Pit After Discovering Affair With His Wife

A man in Haryana, Rohtak, with the help of his friends, kidnapped a man and then buried him alive in a 7-foot deep pit in a field. The extreme action was taken by the man after he discovered that his wife was having an affair with the tenant (man).

The murder of the person, who was a yoga teacher, was carried out last December. However, the body was recovered on March 24 after the police arrested the accused after a long probe.

According to NDTV reports, the officials said that Hardeep found out that Jagdeep, who lived as a tenant, was allegedly having an affair with his wife. He paid a few people to dig a 7-foot-deep pit in Pantavas village of the Charkhi Dadri and told them that it was for a borewell.

Hardeep and some of his friends kidnapped Jagdeep on December 24 after he returned from work. The hands and legs of Jagdeep were tied, and he was beaten up, and the group took the tenant to the pit in Charkhi Dadri. After reaching there, Hardeep and his friends taped the mouth of Jagdeep so that he couldn’t make noise and threw him in the pit. They then filled the pit with mud to bury him alive.

On January 3, a missing person’s complaint was filed at the Shivaji Colony Police station. The body of Jagdeep, after much probing, was recovered on March 24.

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