Woman stays by husband’s body for 4 days after death

Woman stays by husband’s body for 4 days after death

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Chennai:23,11,2020

A 55-year-old woman remained at the side of her husband’s body for four days after his death at their Chengalpet home before police arrived on Saturday. They had been alerted by the couple’s neighbours who were disturbed by the foul smell emanating from the house.

When the Chengalpet taluk police arrived at the house of the deceased, identified as Damodaran, a 65-year old soothsayer, his wife Rajeshwari stopped the team members from approaching his bed, saying he was asleep. Police found she had even prepared food and kept it ready for Damodaran to eat when he wakes up.

A case of suspicious death was registered and the body was shifted to the Chengalpet Government Hospital. Police are now investigating to see if Damodaran died of ill health or if there was any other cause. While the couple’s neighbours told police Rajeshwari was fine till last week, investigators are trying to find out if she is mentally stable or if her odd behaviour was a ploy to evade police inquiries.

Damodaran, police inquiries found, had lost his wife to an illness a few years ago. He then married Rajeswari, who had been given a job in the prisons department on compassionate grounds after her husband’s death.

On Saturday, the couple’s neighbours sensed a foul smell emanating from the house but found the door locked from inside. After they knocked on the door and she let them in, they found Damodaran lying motionless on the bed. Rajeswari told them he was asleep and that the foul smell could be due to the death of rodents and even went out to check the premises. But since the odour was overpowering, the neighbours became suspicious and alerted the Chengalpet Taluk police.

Rajeshwari, 55, told neighbours, cops that her husband, a 65-year-old soothsayer, was just sleeping and had even prepared food for him to eat once he woke up. Neighbours alerted police sensing foul smell