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Man Kills Wife, Surrenders to Police in Meerut; Second Similar Incident Reported

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News18•22-09-2026, 00:00
Man Kills Wife, Surrenders to Police in Meerut; Second Similar Incident Reported
- •Manish from Abdulapur allegedly slit his wife Kavita's throat and then surrendered at Bhawanpur police station in Meerut.
- •Police found Kavita's body, and a forensic team collected evidence; the motive for the killing is currently unknown.
- •In a separate incident in Fatehullapur village, Chand Khan allegedly strangled his wife Shahista with a dupatta over a property dispute.
- •Shahista's family claims Chand frequently assaulted and harassed her for money and that the property dispute involved her request to transfer property to their children.
- •Both accused men have been arrested, and their respective wives' bodies have been sent for post-mortem examinations.
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Shahista was allegedly strangled with a dupatta by her husband, Chand Khan, following a property dispute after she asked him to transfer village property into their children's names and he refused.
A man named Manish, who resided in Abdulapur, surrendered at the local police station after allegedly killing his 25-year-old wife, Kavita, by slitting her throat.
Police arrested the accused husbands in both cases, registered official cases, sent the victims' bodies for post-mortems, and dispatched forensic teams to collect evidence from the crime scenes.



