BAREILLY: In a bizarre incident, a woman in a fit of rage slit the throat of another woman and killed her after her mobile phone was inadvertently dropped by the victim's 16-year-old daughter into a water jug.
The incident took place at Nai Basti Naankar village under Ganj Kotwali police limits of Uttar Pradesh's Rampur district on Saturday night.
The woman’s daughter said that the accused started quarrelling with her mother, even as the victim assured her of getting the mobile phone repaired. However, the accused grabbed her mother and slit her throat with a knife, the daughter alleged. The daughter was assisting the accused in household chores inside the kitchen.
The body of the woman, 36, has been sent for postmortem. The accused has been arrested.
“The accused woman's family lives with us in a rented house. We were in the kitchen preparing food. She was playing some songs on the mobile phone. The daughter asked the woman to play some other song and the phone accidently slipped and fell into the water jar,” a relative of the deceased told police.
The woman was taken to a district hospital where she died during treatment, Rampur SP Shogun Gautam said.
Ganj Kotwali SHO Kishan Pal Singh told TOI, “An FIR has been registered against the accused woman under IPC section 302 (punishment for murder).”
The deceased woman's husband works as a carpenter in Ahmedabad. They have three children. The accused woman also lived with the family along with her four-year-old son. Her husband works as a truck driver and wasn’t present at the time of the incident, the police said.
