Police have arrested a 32-year-old man from Boisar in <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/search/maharashtra-articles" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">Maharashtra</a>'s Palghar district on the charge of killing his wife, a senior official said on Wednesday.
The accused was arrested from Lokhandi Pada, he said.
Addressing a press conference, <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/search/palghar-articles" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">Palghar</a> Superintendent of Police Balasaheb Patil said the victim Mohini Milan Pawar, 30, was found lying in a pool of blood in her house on Sunday morning.
Her sister lodged a complaint, based on which a case was registered against the victim's husband under Indian Penal Code (IPC) section 302 (murder).
"The police probe team got a tip-off that the accused was about to escape to Gujarat. After getting this information, a police team rushed to the Boisar railway station and laid a trap. The man was nabbed at the railway station itself within five hours," he said.
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During his interrogation, the accused told the police that he killed his wife using an electric wire and also stabbed her as a fallout of a domestic dispute, the official said.
The arrested accused was produced before a local court which remanded him in police custody till July 27, the police said.
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