Overview
- Investigators say the husband, Altaf alias Kallu, strangled his 24-year-old wife, Yasmeen, after a dispute fueled by suspicion of an affair with a close relative.
- Police report that he concealed her body, took it about 30 kilometers from Barabanki to Lucknow in a battery-powered rickshaw, and left it near Indira Dam in the BBD police area.
- After disposing of the body, the accused went to Chinhat police station to file a missing-person report, which raised doubts due to inconsistencies in his account.
- Officers interrogated him, recorded an alleged confession, recovered the body at the location he described, and sent it for a post-mortem examination.
- Lucknow Police say the arrest has been made and further inquiries are examining the alleged motive, jurisdictional links between Barabanki and Lucknow, and forensic corroboration.