Ahmedabad: A 36-year-old woman and her boyfriend, both from the Danilimda area, were arrested on Monday for the Oct 2022 killing of her husband.
City crime branch arrested Safiya Khan and her boyfriend Ahmed Turk on Monday for killing Maharwan Khan, 40, by strangling him at their house in Danilimda on October 29, 2022. Maharwan’s brother, Furqan Khan, a resident of Bareilly, filed an FIR with Sabarmati Riverfront (East) police stating that Maharwan had left home at a very young age and began teaching at a madrassa in Kanpur.Eight years ago, Maharwan had taken Safiya and her first husband, Wajid Ali, to his house. He had introduced them as his friends.
A few years later, Maharwan told his family that as Wajid Ali had died in an accident, he had married Safiya. In 2022, Maharwan moved to Ahmedabad. In October that year, he suddenly went incommunicado. When Furqan inquired about him with Safia, she told him that he had gone missing.
In the first week of November, police found a body on the east bank of the Sabarmati which went unidentified as it was badly decomposed.
Recently, PSI A K Pathan of city crime branch who works in police inspector Mahendra Salunke’s squad learned from an informer that Safiya and her boyfriend had killed Maharwan.
When police questioned the two, they confessed that they had strangled Maharwan after Safiya put sedatives in his coffee. They then dumped his body near Vasna barrage and covered it with dry leaves.
City crime branch arrested Safiya Khan and her boyfriend Ahmed Turk on Monday for killing Maharwan Khan, 40, by strangling him at their house in Danilimda on October 29, 2022. Maharwan’s brother, Furqan Khan, a resident of Bareilly, filed an FIR with Sabarmati Riverfront (East) police stating that Maharwan had left home at a very young age and began teaching at a madrassa in Kanpur.Eight years ago, Maharwan had taken Safiya and her first husband, Wajid Ali, to his house. He had introduced them as his friends.
A few years later, Maharwan told his family that as Wajid Ali had died in an accident, he had married Safiya. In 2022, Maharwan moved to Ahmedabad. In October that year, he suddenly went incommunicado. When Furqan inquired about him with Safia, she told him that he had gone missing.
In the first week of November, police found a body on the east bank of the Sabarmati which went unidentified as it was badly decomposed.
Recently, PSI A K Pathan of city crime branch who works in police inspector Mahendra Salunke’s squad learned from an informer that Safiya and her boyfriend had killed Maharwan.
When police questioned the two, they confessed that they had strangled Maharwan after Safiya put sedatives in his coffee. They then dumped his body near Vasna barrage and covered it with dry leaves.