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14 October 2025
Investigations revealed that a man murdered his newly married wife to gain insurance money worth Rs 75-lakh insurance claim.
The story was reported first by The Indian Express. As per the police,the man named Mukesh Kumar Mehta,30, was arrested in Hazaribagh district of Jharkhand.
The police made this case public on Tuesday.The case of murder falls in Padma out Post. On the basis of investigation carried by a team of officials led by Padma Out Post Inchage cum Sub Inspector,it came to light that newly married husband Mukesh Kumar Mehta had murdered his wife Sevanti Kumari (23).
Mehta and Sevanti had got married four months back on October 9 night. Mehta tried to show that she had died in a road mishap just to claim the insurance money of Rs 30 lakh.
In fact, the cops received a complaint from ‘passers-by’ on October 9 about a couple lying injured due to a road mishap along Padama-Itkhori stretch of NH-33. The cops rushed to the spot and brought the deceased Sevanti Kumari and her husband, who pretended to be unconscious to Sadar Hospital.
"While the wife was declared dead and the body was sent for post-mortem, the husband, who had sustained superficial injury, underwent treatment," the police officer said.
However, locals suspected the husband's behaviour during the last rites of the wife.
"We received complaints from locals about the suspicious behaviour of the husband during the last rites of the wife. We started an investigation and found that he had applied for an accident insurance claim of Rs 30 lakh. We became suspicious and started interrogating the accused," PTI report quotes a police officer as saying.
"During intense interrogation, he confessed to the crime for insurance money and said that on October 9 night he had brought his wife for treatment of stomach pain and beat her up with helmets leading to bleeding and then strangled her. He also laid the body on the road after inflicting damage to the bike and also to himself and lied on the road to make it appear like an accident”.
Another signal of the husband’s motive was indicated by no injury on his body.
The police arrested him and the court ordered to jail him on Monday.
