THE police have arrested Taijram Rahim, a 32-year-old cane harvester, who reportedly stabbed his 28-year-old wife to death on Friday night at their Marcy Dam, Rosignol, West Bank Berbice house.

Dead is Amrita Rahim, known as “Sally”, a mother of three. Police Headquarters has noted in a statement that the couple and their children had earlier attended a relative’s birthday party, and subsequently returned home when an argument erupted at around 23:45h.

The argument reportedly stemmed from allegations of infidelity, and as such Amrita threatened to leave the house, when Rahim left the bedroom, went to the kitchen and grabbed a knife.
It is alleged that he returned to the room and stabbed his wife in the region of her left chest while she was lying on the bed. The couple’s eldest child, an 11-year-old, ran to relatives for help.
Amrita was picked up in an unconscious condition, and taken to the Fort Wellington Hospital, where she was pronounced dead on arrival.

Meanwhile, the brother of the suspect, Vicky Rahim, told this publication that he was asleep when he was awakened by his wife who told him that his brother and sister-in-law were “fighting”.
“I run down and rush over, and he was already gone. So I tried to help her (Amrita) up, but she was barely breathing. So we got in a taxi and rushed her to the hospital,” Vicky said.
He said that he when he returned home, he found his brother, Taijram, there, and he asked him to contact the police, so that he can surrender.

“When I go out, he said that he went to the Police Station, but the front gate was locked; if I could call the Police for him,” Vicky said.
According to Vicky, his brother told him he committed the gruesome act because Amrita threatened to end their relationship.
The woman leaves to mourn her three children, aged 11, 10 and eight.