A businessman allegedly murdered his wife, a former airhostess, at Indira Nagar in Ramanthapur on Sunday night after the two got into an altercation. Ritu Sareen, 28, a former Jet Airways employee, died after her husband Sachin Uppal allegedly hit her head against the floor. She was declared dead by doctors when she was brought to a private hospital in Ramanthapur.
Sachin, who runs an electronic goods business in Koti, allegedly picked up a fight with Ritu as soon as he came home on Sunday night. Police officials suspect that Sachin had been torturing his wife for dowry and had attacked her for the same reason. Ritu, a native of Jamshedpur had married Sachin one and a half years ago. According to sources, a friend of the couple, who was visiting, witnessed the brutal assault. In fact Sachin asked him to leave when the friend tried to stop him.
“He (the friend) saw Ritu collapse on the floor and then Sachin asked him to leave. Sachin carried her to the bedroom and locked it from inside,” said a police official. The Uppal police booked a case under IPC section 302 (for murder) and 304 B (dowry death) as per the complaint of the victim’s mother and arrested Sachin on Monday. Police is probing if he was drunk at the time of the incident.
The incident occurred on Sunday at around 11.30 pm. “The man hit her and she collapsed. He must have also hit her head against the floor. There was only a minor external injury. She must have died of internal injuries. However, we are waiting for the post-mortem report to confirm the cause of death,” said Uppal police inspector Y. Narasimha Reddy.