Man beheads wife battling with low-tech stove to make his early morning tea
By Jeph Ajobaju, Chief Copy Editor
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“My father would often pick up fights over tea. He had a habit of drinking tea at least 5-6 times a day. If my mother refused to make tea so many times or took more time than expected, he would shout at her.
“But I had never seen him hitting my mother. We were in shock when we saw her body on the terrace, blood trickling out of the wounds,” – victim’s son.
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A man in India has been kept in judicial custody who beheaded his wife with a sword for delaying making his early morning tea because he himself failed in his duty as a husband to upgrade the cooking apparatus in the home from a low-tech stove to a gas or electric cooker to speed up food preparation.
Their four children rushed out from the bedroom to see their mother in the pool of her own blood, but the man wielded the sword at them, so they could not help her, if even they had a chance to do so.
The story, reported by Times of India, is produced below:
A bitter quarrel over a cup of tea
A 52-year-old man from Ghaziabad allegedly beheaded his wife over an argument that started with a cup of tea. The man, identified as Dharamveer, asked his wife Sundari for tea twice and became angry when she said it would take some time.
Dharamveer then hacked his wife with a sword, causing her death. The couple’s four children witnessed the incident and tried to save their mother but were also threatened by Dharamveer.
He was subsequently arrested and charged with murder.
Dharamveer, a daily wage labourer, had asked his wife Sundari for tea twice and flew into a rage when she said it would take some time. A bitter quarrel followed, during which he brought out a sword and allegedly beheaded his wife from behind.
Sundari slumped to the ground and died.
DCP (rural) Vivek Yadav said Sundari woke up around 6am and started making tea in the kitchen.
“Dharamveer woke up a few minutes later and called out to her for a cup of tea. The couple’s four children (three boys and a girl) were asleep in another room,” he added.
“After around five minutes, Dharamveer asked for tea again and rushed to the makeshift kitchen on the terrace. He got angry when his wife told him it would take another 10 minutes for the tea to get ready and kicked the utensils away.”
The daily wager rushed downstairs and returned with a sword. As Sundari continued to make tea on the stove, he hacked her from behind, the officer said.
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Children jolted out of sleep
“Jolted out of sleep by her cries, the children rushed to the terrace and tried to save their mother. But Dharamveer swished the sword at them too. They went back to their room in fear.”
Soldier, the couple’s son, called up police.
“My father would often pick up fights over tea. He had a habit of drinking tea at least 5-6 times a day. If my mother refused to make tea so many times or took more time than expected, he would shout at her.
“But I had never seen him hitting my mother. We were in shock when we saw her body on the terrace, blood trickling out of the wounds,” he told Times of India.
Dharamveer, police said, sat crying beside the body until cops arrived. He was arrested and the body sent for an autopsy.
“On the basis of a complaint by the woman’s family members, an FIR was registered against Dharamveer under Section 302 (murder) of the IPC. He was produced in court and remanded in judicial custody,” Yadav said.
