PATHANAMTHITTA: The police are conducting a widespread search soon after a woman said that she killed her husband and buried the body. Noushad (34) of Kalanjoorpadam in Pathanamthitta, went missing one and a half years ago. His wife Afsana is in police custody. Police said that her statements are contradictory.

She told police that she killed him and buried the body in the rubber plantation adjacent to their house. Based on her statement, the police are in search of the body. She told police that he comes home drunk and attacks her children and as she had no other choice, killed him.

The missing complaint of Noushad was lodged in November 2021. The police then registered the FIR on the complaint of Noushad’s father. The police said that during the further investigation in the case, there was a contradiction in the wife's statement. On interrogation, the wife gave contradictory statements that she killed Noushad and buried his body and later she said that she threw it in the river.

Noushad and his wife were staying in a rented house in Paruthipara. She said that she buried the body here. Nothing has been confirmed as she keeps changing her statement. She later said that she killed him and threw the body in the river.

There were differences of opinion between the two and this led to the murder.