Overview

• Usha Devi, 35, allegedly stabbed her husband, 45-year-old labourer Balo Das, with a garden knife called a dabiya late Sunday night in Purnea after he returned from Punjab to confront her about the undisclosed land sale.
• Their 12-year-old son, Shailendra, witnessed the attack, was threatened by his mother to stay silent and alerted his aunt at dawn, prompting villagers to summon police.
• Devi has confessed to the killing, admitting she was influenced by a lover and sold the couple’s land without her husband’s knowledge in a plan to elope.
• Bihar Police have taken Usha Devi into custody and are investigating the roles of the extramarital relationship and property dispute in the fatal stabbing.
• Authorities have placed the boy under the care of relatives while the murder inquiry continues.