In a bizarre incident, a man allegedly killed his ‘social media addict’ wife after she forgot to cook lunch for him.
On Thursday, one Surajit Pal, resident of Alipore Road at Chetla area in Kolkata was arrested on charges of murdering his wife Tumpa Pal.
Police sources said that Surajit had confessed of killing his 36-year-old wife following a suspicion that she was having an affair with someone, given the time she spent on social media.
Sources said that when Surajit returned home from work on January 24 for lunch he found out that she was so engrossed with her phone checking out her social networking profile and that she had forgotten to prepare food. He threatened her with a knife but unfazed, she continued to fiddle with her phone. In a fit of rage he hit on her head with the knife butt several times and strangulated her with a towel.
After he realised what he had done, he even tried to kill himself by slashing his wrist. He however, was unable to do so and later put a bandage on the wound on his wrist and tried to flee the city when he was arrested.
The couple has two sons. One of them is out of the town on a marriage while the younger one, a college student, was the first one to discover his mother’s lifeless body after returning from college.
Neighbours confirmed that the couple fought bitterly owing to her addiction to Facebook and WhatsApp and Surajit often said that he suspected she was involved with some other man. Some also said that it could be a smokescreen as Tumpa had found out some time ago, that Surajit was having an affair with his unmarried sister-in-law.
Surajit was produced at a lower court on Wednesday which sent him to police custody.
