{"id":420,"date":"2013-12-05T12:28:47","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T12:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/?p=420"},"modified":"2013-12-03T18:29:45","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T18:29:45","slug":"forced-into-marriage-man-kills-wife-passes-it-off-as-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/forced-into-marriage-man-kills-wife-passes-it-off-as-suicide\/","title":{"rendered":"Forced into marriage, man kills wife, passes it off as suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A man who allegedly killed his wife by smothering her to death with a pillow was arrested by police in Yeshwantpur late on Saturday night.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to investigating officers, the arrested, Gangaraju, 22, tried to pass off the death as a suicide.<\/p>\n<p>Employed as an electrician on a contract basis at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO),\u00a0 Gangaraju had married his cousin, Prema, 19, on July 29. Police added that Prema was the daughter of Gangaraju\u2019s aunt. The couple had been living at a rented house in AK Colony, Mattikere.<\/p>\n<div id=\"vtnEditorialPlayer\">\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">The death was first reported when Gangaraju rushed an unconscious Prema to M S Ramaiah Hospital at 11.30 pm, claiming that she had consumed poison. However, doctors at M S Ramaiah Hospital declared Prema dead on arrival and informed local police of the suspicious nature of the death. Yeshwantpur police rushed to the spot and detained Gangaraju for questioning.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<p>A senior police official said that a medical examination of the body contradicted Gangaraju\u2019s statement about suicide. \u201cWhile Gangaraju continued to claim that Prema had attempted suicide, it wasn\u2019t long before he confessed to murder,\u201d the official said.<\/p>\n<p>Read More: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.deccanherald.com\/content\/372245\/forced-marriage-man-kills-wife.html\">http:\/\/www.deccanherald.com\/content\/372245\/forced-marriage-man-kills-wife.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man who allegedly killed his wife by smothering her to death with a pillow was arrested by police in Yeshwantpur late on Saturday night.\u00a0 According to investigating officers, the arrested, Gangaraju, 22, tried to pass off the death as a suicide. Employed as an electrician on a contract basis at the Indian Space Research [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,8,10],"class_list":["post-420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-halo-project","tag-honour","tag-honour-based-violence"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":421,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions\/421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}