Central govt staff killing: Wife, minor son, accomplice nabbed

A 36-year-old woman and her accomplice were arrested for allegedly killing her husband, an auditor employed with the central government, in southeast Delhi's Jaitpur, police said Tuesday.

The deceased's 16-year-old son has also been apprehended, they said, adding the woman and her son were fed up with her husband's alcohol addiction and ill-treatment towards them.

The body of Anand Singh (43), who was posted in the Receipt and Dispatch section of the Directorate General of Audit Central Expenditure, was found in his house with multiple stab injuries, police said Sunday.

Initially, the woman claimed that her husband had not returned home till late on Friday night, but when she woke up around 3 am Saturday she found his body lying in a pool of blood and Rs 1.5 lakhs missing.

Contradictions in the sequence of events narrated by the woman and her son