
VADODARA, Sept 30: In a bizarre incident, a 60-year-old man, on Thursday morning, brutally murdered his wife by assaulting her with a sickle and a hammer and later succumbed to a head-injury, the police said.
According to information, the accused, one Ranjibhai Govindbhai Adhera was not in good terms with his wife for the past two months. But, on Thursday morning, he beat her up with blunt as well as sharp-edged weapons in the kitchen in the absence of his son, who had gone to supply milk to a Dairy.
After killing his wife, the accused then changed his clothes and went for a walk. However, when his son, Narendra, was returning home at 10 am, he was informed by an acquaintance that a man, bleeding from his nose and ear, was lying in an unconscious state under a tree.
Recognising the victim, Narendra then took him to the house. Adhera, however, died on reaching the house.
Later, when Narendra tried to locate his mother, he found her in a pool of blood in the kitchen. He also found the blood-stained clothes of his father under one of the beds.
In an FIR lodged with the Makarpura police, Narendra alleged his father to have killed his mother and then hit himself to commit suicide.