MEERUT: A 30-year-old man was arrested for killing his second wife 18 months after she gave birth to a son, police said on Sunday. He married her after having five daughters with his first wife, hoping for a boy.Meerut rural SP Abhijeet Kumar said an unidentified woman’s body was found in the Sardhana police station area on Thursday. After examining footage from around 25 CCTV cameras, police identified her as Sheeba and arrested her husband, Mohd Sadiq.“Sadiq told investigators that he had killed Sheeba with the help of his two brothers, Mohd Aabid and Mohd Shadab, his first wife Aasiya and mother Wasila,” Kumar said. Sheeba had a daughter from her first marriage. She left her first husband, Shahrukh, around three years ago and married Sadiq, a resident of Lala Mohammadpur in Kankerkhera.When Sadiq’s family opposed the marriage, he took Sheeba to a rented house in Nangloi area of Delhi. He returned three months later and convinced his family that he had married her to have a son. The family eventually accepted Sheeba, who gave birth to a boy 18 months ago.Police said Sadiq later refused to accept Sheeba’s daughter from her first marriage, prompting her to return to her parents with both children. Her family later arranged a rented house for her and her first husband in Pachpedha village.Tensions escalated after a scuffle between the two men. Sheeba then refused to return to Sadiq and began posting videos against him on social media.Kumar said Sadiq later contacted Sheeba and brought her and their son to his house, leaving her daughter with a relative at a shop in Bhavanpur. On Wednesday evening, Sheeba told her brother that Sadiq was taking her to Dehradun the next day. Her phone became unreachable soon afterwards.Police said the murder was planned after Sheeba reached Sadiq’s house. He arranged a friend’s car and travelled with Sheeba, his first wife and mother, while one of his brothers drove and the other followed on a motorcycle.Sadiq strangled Sheeba inside the car, dumped her body in a field and hit her face with bricks to conceal her identity. He has been arrested, while the other accused are absconding, said police.
