Gujarat Man Kills Wife To 'Relief Her From Mental Ailment'; Family Disputes

An elderly man has killed his wife who is allegedly suffering from a mental ailment. The man, Jayendra Dhakan, a rickshaw driver, walked inside the B Division police station on Monday, October 13, admitting that he killed his wife.

Taking the man’s confession into account, the police, without a doubt, reached Narsinh Mehta Awas Yojna quarters and found the dead body of Dhakan’s 65-year-old wife, Manju, Times of India reported

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After integration, the police said that the man claimed that he killed his wife to relieve her of the misery caused by a mental ailment. The man said he could not bear to see her suffer as she often fought with him and even assaulted him. He said that he even thought about committing suicide but then changed his mind, wondering what would happen to her after his death.

The police have launched a detailed probe to verify his claim. However, conflicting with her husband’s statements, the deceased’s sister Sharda maintained that she was in perfect mental health.

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Sharda has filed a complaint against Dhakan. In her complaint, Sharda said her sister was  first married about 30 years ago to a man Gandubhai Gadu from Bilkha village in Amreli. It was after his death after five years of marriage that she married Dhakan and had been living with him for the past 24 years.

Manju had been unwell for the past four months, said Sharda, adding that her sister had complained that her husband was persistently dubbing her as mentally unstable.

“But when I spoke to Manju, she sounded completely fine. She told me Dhakan had been harassing her for the last eight months and was spreading false claims about her illness,” Times of India qouted Sharda. She also pointed out that the  family had once taken Manju to a hospital in Amreli for psychiatric evaluation, where doctors found her to be mentally healthy

Manju didn’t want to file a police complaint because she wanted to save her marriage, Sharda added.