Noida, April 05: A 55-year-old man allegedly bludgeoned his wife to death with a hammer at their home in Noida’s Sector 15 on Friday afternoon, driven by suspicion of an extramarital affair, police said. The accused, Noor-ul-lah Haider, later walked over 2km to the Sector 20 police station to confess to the crime.
The victim, Asma Khan, 42, worked as a civil engineer at a private firm in Sector 62. She lived in a two-storey house with Haider and their two children — Samad, 19, a BTech student at Amity University, and 12-year-old Inaya.
“On Friday around 1pm, my wife Farida received a call from Samad, who informed her that his mother was dead. When Farida asked what had happened, Samad said his father killed her, and she was lying in a pool of blood on the bed,” said Nadeem, Farida’s husband and a resident of Jamia Nagar in Delhi.
According to police, the couple had been fighting for days. Asma called her sister around 5am Friday, seeking intervention. “On Friday morning, my wife and other relatives went to Asma’s house. Asma and Haider were counselled for over five hours by relatives, who left around 11am,” Nadeem said.
He added that Asma’s mother, Husnara Begum, stayed back at the house to help calm the situation. “Once the others left, Asma and Haider retired to their room and the children to theirs. It was then that he locked the door from inside and killed her,” Nadeem said.
Haider allegedly muffled his wife’s screams with a pillow and repeatedly struck her on the head with a hammer, senior police officers said.
Amit Kumar Maan, station house officer of Phase 1 police station, said, “After the murder, Haider walked over 2km to the Sector 20 police station to surrender. He informed officers at the station that he had killed his wife over suspicions of an affair.”
Sector 20 police alerted the Phase 1 police, who dispatched a team to secure the crime scene and begin investigation.
“A case under Section 103 (murder) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita has been registered at Phase 1 police station, and the body has been sent for an autopsy,” Maan said.
Additional deputy commissioner of police, Noida, Sumit Shukla, said, “Haider accepted that he killed his wife over suspicion of an affair. He did not express any remorse for his act. We have recovered the hammer from the spot, and further investigation is underway to record the statements of the suspect and the others.”
