A woman who tried to kill her husband by poisoning his food has been arrested in Namangan.

A crime related to hiring a hitman to commit murder by a woman and her son-in-law has been prevented in Davlatobod district of Namangan region. The Information Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported on this.

 

It was reported that on March 4, it was established that a woman living in Davlatobod district, in collusion with her son-in-law, planned to have her husband, with whom she had been living in a Sharia-based marriage, killed for 6 thousand US dollars.

 

Following this, an urgent operation was carried out in cooperation with the Namangan Regional Department of Internal Affairs, the State Security Service, and prosecutor's office employees. It became known that the clients contacted a conditional hitman via Telegram and gave instructions to kill the man while he was driving alone in a Cobalt car in a deserted area located on the Andijan-Namangan road, and then set the car on fire.

 

During the urgent operation, the victim's murder was staged, this process was filmed and shown to the clients. Afterwards, they were apprehended by operational officers with material evidence while handing over 5.5 thousand US dollars of the agreed sum of money.

 

Regarding this case, the Prosecutor's Office of Namangan Region has initiated a criminal case under Article 97, Part 2, via Article 25 of the Criminal Code. The suspects have been detained in accordance with Article 221 of the Criminal Procedure Code, and preliminary investigative actions are currently being carried out.