HOWRAH: Unable to bear the habitual beatings, a woman hacked her jeweller husband to

death

at their apartment in

’s Golabari on Monday night, when he not only thrashed her but also went for their two children.

The incident came to light on Tuesday, when deceased Pawan Shah’s brother Vijay discovered the blood-spattered body in the flat, where the couple lived with their two children. According to Vijay, he went to Pawan’s Golabari flat around 11am. At that time, the woman, Pinki Shah (32), was leaving, taking the children to school. She reportedly told him Pawan was drunk and asleep. But Vijay spotted the body in a room and called the cops. Pinki was arrested from a relative’s house that night. She was produced in a Howrah court on Wednesday and remanded in police custody.

Pinki told police Pawan would regularly return drunk and thrash her. She claimed he assaulted her on Monday night as well and even hit the children who came to her rescue. She reportedly picked up a

and struck at him in self-defence. “I had no intent to kill him. I only wanted to save my children and myself,” she told the cops. Police have charged her with culpable homicide not amounting to murder.

Pinki had twice earlier lodged police complaints against Pawan for torturing her. Following a court directive, the police even took him for counselling so he stopped abusing her.