Kolkata: A homemaker, Priyanka Nath (28), was found lying in a pool of blood with both wrists slashed, in a room locked from the outside at her residence in Sodepur's Azad Hind Nagar on Sunday morning. Her husband Sukanta (36), a private car driver, has since gone missing along with their eight-year-old son.
The incident came to light after Priyanka's family, unable to reach her by phone, visited her house. Finding it locked from the outside, they alerted neighbours and then the police, who broke in to find the body hidden under the bed. According to cops, she also appeared to have been strangled with a cloth. "A murder case has been registered based on a complaint by the victim's parents," an officer said.
Locals said the couple frequently quarrelled. "She was repeatedly assaulted," said Priyanka's brother Pradip Majumdar. Cops have sealed the house and started a search for Sukanta and the child.