19:08, 14 October 2026

A mullah from Dagestan was convicted of murdering his wife.

The Kizlyar District Court sentenced a mullah to 9 years in prison for strangling his wife out of jealousy, after which he transported her body to the Tarumovsky District and buried it.

As reported by "Caucasian Knot", in early February, the court arrested the suspect in the murder of a mother of four children in Dagestan for two months. According to sources, he previously served as the imam of the Tarumov Mosque and had a reputation as a righteous man.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs reported that the mother of four children from the village of Krasny Voskhod was killed by her partner out of jealousy. According to sources, the detained mullah regularly beat the woman. On the evening of December 13, 2025, the suspect arrived at the home where the 35-year-old victim (his second wife in a Muslim marriage) lived with their six-month-old child and children from another marriage. Soon, a conflict arose between the suspect and the woman, during which the man strangled the victim, then took the body to the outskirts of the village named after M. Gorky in the Tarumovsky District, where he washed it in a canal, wrapped it in a sheet taken from the victim's home, and buried it. After 7 weeks, the man decided to confess to the investigative authority.

According to the investigation, in 2025, in the territory of the Kizlyar District, a man strangled his cohabitant during a conflict that arose out of jealousy. To cover up the traces of the crime, he transported the body of the deceased to the Tarumovsky District, where he buried it, the Investigative Committee of Dagestan reported today on its Telegram channel.

The Kizlyar District Court found him guilty of committing a crime under part 1 of article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (murder) and sentenced him to 9 years in prison. He will serve his sentence in a strict regime correctional colony.

"Caucasian Knot" also reported that on January 29, police discovered the dismembered and burned body of 36-year-old mother of three Malvina Magomedova, and a resident of Derbent, Rajidin Yarilyev, was wanted on suspicion of murder. According to sources, the reason for the quarrel and murder was the sale of a car. It was also reported that Yarilyev had been convicted multiple times, and he and Magomedova had entered into a nikah (marriage according to Islamic traditions, - note from "Caucasian Knot"). On the same day, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Dagestan detained him. He confessed to the murder and was arrested for two months.

In December 2023, the president of the Center for Research on Global Issues of Modernity and Regional Problems "Caucasus. World. Development" Said Sirazhudino published a report "Domestic Violence in the North Caucasus: a report on the results of monitoring the situation in the region and analyzing judicial practice." According to the report, in Ingushetia and Chechnya, the threat to women often comes from the family itself, while in Dagestan, murders of women by outsiders occur much more frequently, with many cases of murders during quarrels and during property theft.

Translated automatically via OpenAI from https://www.kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/427472