Noida: Children begged relatives to take mom with them

After witnessing a night of relentless arguments between a woman and her husband, their children were resting in their room on Friday afternoon when tragedy struck. According to police, the man locked his wife in the bedroom, muffled her screams with a pillow, and bludgeoned her to death with a hammer.

“Dad shouldn’t have done that,” said the couple's 19-year-old son and a BTech student, as he packed his bag to leave their two-storey home in Sector 15.

The children said their parents, married in 2005, had been arguing daily in recent weeks as the man increasingly accused his wife of having an affair.

“We were in our room on Friday when my sister went to check on mum around 1pm. She opened the door and found her lying in a pool of blood on the bed. A blood-soaked pillow was nearby,” said the son.

“She started screaming that mum is dead. I rushed in and found her motionless.”

“My father shouldn’t have done that,” he said. “He suspected that my mother was in an affair with someone, but that wasn’t true. He killed her.”

He added, “For the past three days, he had been fighting with her, checking her phone and even assaulting her.”

The slain woman's brother-in-law said that his wife and other relatives visited the home that morning and counselled the couple for over five hours.

“Just as they were leaving around 11am, their children pleaded with us to take their mother with us. They were afraid something bad would happen,” he said.

The woman's mother stayed back in hopes of helping the couple reconcile.

“We didn’t think he would kill her so brutally,” the brother in law said.

Police who reached the scene found the bedroom splattered with blood and recovered the murder weapon. The case has been registered at Phase 1 police station.

“We are taking the kids with us,” he added. “There’s no one else to care for them.”