Kanpur SSP Shalabh Mathur has revealed that Judge Pratibha Gautam’s husband, Manu Abhishek Rajan, has been arrested as a potential accused in the murder.
The judge had been found dead at her Kanpur residence on Sunday.
The husband of a 28-year-old joint magistrate, whose body was found hanging in her house, was arrested on Monday for allegedly murdering her as she refused to undergo an abortion, police said.
Gautam, who was three months pregnant, was found hanging in her house at Circuit House colony in Kanpur on Sunday with her husband Manu Abhishek claiming that he had found the body after he returned from Delhi.
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