Vasco: A most gruesome case of mindless violence has come to light from Goa where a man murdered his wife by strangulating her to death only to walk up to the nearest police station and confess to the crime. The man in question, Ashok Panchanam Kumar hails from Odisha and was married to 39-year-old Kerala native K Bindu for the past seven years. The couple have two children, a three-year-old boy and a five-year-old girl. In his confession statement to the police, Kumar claimed that he killed his wife of seven years in a fit of rage triggered by her offensive statements about his daughter, reported. Establishing a timeline of events which transpired on Sunday night, Kumar said that the couple went to sleep around 9.30 pm along with their children. "I woke up at 10.30 pm and demanded intercourse from my wife," he added.

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However, according to the version of events narrated by Kumar, his wife then refused to have sex with him and an argument ensued between them. Amidst the argument, Kumar's wife told him "to have sex with some other women or wait till their daughter grows up." Her statement allegedly enraged Kumar to the extent that he strangulated his wife resulting in her death. Kumar then walked all the way from his residence in Zuarinagar's Zorinth to the Birla outpost where he encountered a hawaldar around midnight.

Inspector Sandesh Chodankar with the Verna police station told media outlets that Kumar revealed to him how he had murdered his wife after she refused to engage in sexual intercourse with him. The policeman took Kumar to the Verna police station where he confessed to his crime. Local law enforcement personnel reached Kumar's residence on Monday morning to find the victim's body. The body was then shifted to the Goa Medical College and Hospital where it is being preserved and a postmortem will be conducted shortly. The victim's mother who lives next door was informed about the tragedy the next morning. "We had dinner together on Sunday night and I was told on Monday that my daughter has been killed," she said. A case under section 302 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) has been filed against Kumar in this regard and further investigation is underway.

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