Daijiworld Media Network – New Delhi

New Delhi, Mar 30: A 32-year-old woman was allegedly killed after her husband attacked her with a small LPG cylinder during a domestic dispute in southeast Delhi’s Pul Prahladpur area, police said on Monday.

The deceased has been identified as Poonam, while the accused, Suresh Kumar, has been arrested following the incident at their residence in DDA Janta Flats.

According to police, the couple had married in 2020 and had recently moved to Delhi from Churu district in Rajasthan about a month ago.

The incident came to light after neighbours alerted authorities on hearing screams from the house. A police team rushed to the spot and found Poonam critically injured. She was immediately shifted to a nearby hospital, where doctors declared her brought dead, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Southeast) Hemant Tiwari said.

Preliminary investigation revealed that the couple had an argument over financial support for the husband’s brother, which escalated into a violent altercation. During the fight, Kumar allegedly picked up a small LPG cylinder and struck his wife multiple times, causing fatal injuries.

The couple has two daughters — a four-year-old who lives with grandparents in Churu and a one-and-a-half-year-old who was present in the house at the time of the incident, police said.

Police have taken the accused into custody and registered a case of murder. The crime scene has been secured, and forensic teams have examined the spot.

Investigators are also probing the couple’s background and questioning neighbours and relatives to establish the sequence of events leading up to the murder. The body has been sent for postmortem.