BSF officer murders wife on suspicion of affair, kills self

Ahmedabad: A Border Security Force jawan murdered his wife on suspicion of having an extramarital affair before hanging himself in a well at Bhandara village in the district, police said on Ahmedabad. Ramesh Damor (28), posted in Jammu and Kashmir, had come to his native place on leave on June 18.

Ramesh suspected that his wife Ila was having an extra-marital affair and stabbed her to death using a sharp-edged weapon on Friday night before killing himself, police said. "After murdering his wife, Ramesh hanged himself with a rope in the well," Santrampur police station sub-inspector VK Jadhav said.

The dead bodies were sent for postmortem to Santrampur government hospital.