Mumbai: Man kills sister-in-law out of spite, rapes body

Mumbai: In a shocking incident, a woman was raped and murdered by her  brother-in-law after she refused to give in to his demands of having an illicit relationship. The perpetrator along with his relative and friend, who were also party to the crime, had dumped the body in a creek. On Wednesday, the three accused were booked and remanded to police custody, according to a news report.

The accused, Raees Qureshi, didn’t get along well with the deceased, Ruby, as she often turned down his request of getting intimate. Besides, he was also irked at the way she humiliated him in public. Ruby was married to Raees’s brother Azad. Though both the families were not happy with their relationship, the duo tied the knot. The couple shifted to Ambhujwadi in 2015 after putting up in Delhi for a couple of years. Raees, who was a vegetable vendor, also shifted to the same neighbourhood soon. Unsatisfied with Ruby’s disposition and dominant behaviour, Raees decided to get back at her.

He plotted a plan to kill her, for which he also roped in his relative Isaq and friend Shabeer. Adhering to the plan, he sent his wife and brother for some work and called Ruby to his place. The perpetrators bludgeoned Ruby with a brick and strangled her to death on January 4. After killing her, Raees raped the corpse. The dead was undressed, packed in a sack and disposed off.

The police suspected Raees’ involvement in the case as his statements during interrogation were flimsy and misleading. He was arrested on May 21. After a tip off by him, the other two accomplices were nabbed on Wednesday, said the police.