Assam Farmer Kills Wife After Elopement Near Mizoram Border

GUWAHATI: A 40-year-old farmer allegedly killed his wife in a gruesome act of vengeance after she had apparently run off with her lover in a startling incident on the Assam-Mizoram border.

The alleged perpetrator, Khalil Uddin Barbhuiya, from Assam's Hailakandi district, is believed to have committed the crime in a farm hut within the Zukbual paddy field area, near Buhchangphai village in Mizoram's Kolasib district.

The accused is said to have slit the throat of his 35-year-old wife, Hassan Begum Barbhuiya, with a machete, popularly referred to as a dao. The crime is reported to have been committed on Friday, even as children played nearby, oblivious to the horrific crime being committed within the hut.

The offense was exposed a day after, on Saturday, when a local villager, the owner of the paddy field the couple had been working for a few years, filed a complaint at the Vairengte police station.

After the report was received, officials quickly arrived at the site and found the body of the victim, which was later taken to her native village in Hailakandi after a postmortem was done on the victim at the Kolasib district hospital.

Inquiries uncovered that Hassan had just gone to her home village in late March and reportedly eloped with a different man, one believed to be her lover. Upset with the turn of events, Khalil Barbhuiya and some of his partners are said to have tracked her down and returned her to the farm hut, where the killing later occurred.

The culprit ran away the moment he had committed the offense and has since been on the run. He is being sought by law enforcers actively, with collaboration from local populations. The police said that they found it hard to trace him, particularly as he did not have a cell phone.

To avert communal tension in the fragile border area, local leaders and police officials have been meeting the Muslim community in and around Buhchangphai village.

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