Husband Kills Wife By Electric Shock And Buries Body In Bedroom, Five Years After She Eloped And Had Conversion-Nikah With Him

Snapshot
The victim has been identified as Uma Sharma alias Arfa Fatima.
In yet another case where a Hindu woman has been killed after elopement and conversion-nikah, rotting body of Uma Sharma alias Arfa Fatima was recovered from her own bedroom by police on 24 December in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri district.
Her husband Wasi Ahmed killed her by giving her electric shock on 22 December, police said.
A press note shared from the police’s Twitter account said that a case was registered at Gola Police Station of Kheri in the murder (FIR number 850/2022).
The main accused Wasi, along with his brother Rafi, were arrested on 25 December. They have been booked under IPC sections 302 (murder) and 201 (causing disappearance of evidence).
The note (attached below) said that the police have seized a four-metre electricity wire that was used for giving electric shock.


Local news reports said that Uma had eloped and married Wasi after her conversion to Islam, and was renamed as Arfa Fatima.
A report by Amar Ujala said that the two used to be neighbours. After Uma left her family, Wasi shifted to another locality. He lived with his mother Ashiya and brother Rafi. His father passed away several years ago.
The report quotes Ashiya as saying that Wasi confided in her that he had killed Fatima in a fit of rage after she threatened to go to the police against him. Ashiya then approached the police herself on 23 December.
She told another newspaper that Fatima and Wasi would constantly fight. However, the reports do not say what they fought about. They have children, both sons, named Haider and Humayun.
Swarajya has reported a large number of cases where Hindu women have been murdered or killed themselves for refusing to or after accepting conversion-nikah.
The pattern of such cases is called by Hindu activists as ‘love jihad’ - a term coined by Christian organisations more than a decade ago.
Besides Hindus and Christians, the term has also been used by Sikh, Jain, Buddhist and tribal groups.
Here is a list of such cases.
· Sher Khan Killed Naina Kaur For Turning Him Down. So Which Family Left The House In Fear?
· Hyderabad: Another SC Woman Killed By Muslim Boyfriend; Butcher’s Knife Used For Slitting Throat
· Interfaith Love: Rachna, Who Eloped With Irfan And Accused Him Of Forcible Conversion, Is Dead
· Three Years Ago, Uma Eloped With Arif. Today, She Is Fighting For Her Life After Being Burnt By Him
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