Goa Police has arrested a hotel manager for murder of his wife.
Gaurav Katiyar, a resident of Lucknow, is accused of killing his wife on the beach of South Goa. He is a resident of Lucknow.
According to the police, 29 year old Katiyar had taken his wife Deeksha to the beach on the pretext of outing. He took his wife to the sea and killed her by drowning her there.
Police said Katiyar drowned his wife and then started pretending that his wife was drowning. He told lifeguards that he had come to get ice cream and his wife drowned in the water.
However, a video was made by a person passing by in which it was seen that Katiyar was leaving behind his wife’s body.
After this he returned again and checked whether he was dead or not. After this he started making noise.
Katiyar was working as a manager in a one star hotel in Colva. The injury marks on Katiyar’s wife’s body showed that she had been murdered. After this he was arrested on Friday.
The court has sent him to police custody for five days.
Police said, we are waiting for the post mortem report so that the real cause of death can be known. The reason behind the murder will be known after investigation.
Police say that Katiyar and Deeksha got married only one and a half years ago. Police suspect that the murder was committed due to extramarital affair.