Infidelity, Betrayal and Homicide — A Case Report

Infidelity is a violation of a couple's assumed or stated contract regarding emotional and/or sexual exclusivity. Contrary to what most people assume, it is neither rare nor exclusively male behavior. It is one of the most challenging and damaging emotional events in life. It can be debilitating and feel like an emotional murder. We encountered a case of homicide in which the wife betrayed her husband and murdered him with the help of his friends due to her extramarital affairs with her husband's friends.

Police recovered a human skeleton from the bushes of hill. The bones were spread at different places along with the clothes. The skeleton was identified with the help of clothes by the father of deceased. After thorough investigation, the facts came out that his wife had extra marital affairs and she murdered him with the help of her friends. On postmortem examination, fracture of skull bone with infiltrations of blood was noticed. The cause of death in this case was opined as head injury which was ante-mortem in nature and sufficient to cause death in ordinary course of nature.