Police allege that the councillor’s son plotted and carried out the fatal stabbing of his stepmother, driven by resentment over his father’s third marriage.
Rubina, the third wife of BJP-supported Mandsaur municipal councillor Shahid Meo, died on-spot after getting stabbed by assailants on Thursday (February 5) evening in Madhya Pradesh, in what police initially treated as a targeted attack by unidentified. However, the investigation, as per reports, took a total U-turn after officials figured out that the attack was a planned murder, orchestrated by Meo’s own son from his first marriage.
The main suspect in the case, according to the investigators, is Sahil, who had a grudge against his father due to his third marriage, as per a report by NDTV, and had been harboring a grudge against the victim, Rubina, for the past several months. Not able to accept the marriage between his father and stepmother, Sahil planned a conspiracy with an accomplice to kill her.
Married seven months ago, Rubina had two young children from a previous marriage, while her husband Shahid Meo had five from earlier marriages.
Attack Near Rented House
The attack took place around 5:30 pm on Thursday in Abhinandan Nagar, near Rubina’s rented house when she had just returned from her parents’ home in Madarpura and was getting down from an auto-rickshaw.
Suddenly, two people on an Apache motorcycle approached and one of them allegedly stabbed her repeatedly in the stomach, chest and head. Locals rushed to help, while assailants fled the scene. Shahid Meo immediately took his wife to the district hospital, where doctors declared her dead on arrival.
In his initial statement, the councillor said he had no idea who could be behind the attack. “I was in the market when I got a call that my wife had been stabbed. I have no enmity with anyone,” he told police.
Family Discord – a Motive
While, investigators faced an early setback as nearby CCTV cameras were nearly non-functional due to power outage in the area at the time of the attack, footage from surrounding areas and other technical evidence led police to Sahil. During questioning, his alleged anger over his father’s remarriage emerged as the key motive.
