A mullah suspected of murdering a Muslim has been remanded in custody for two months by a court in Dagestan.

A court has remanded in custody for two months a suspect in the murder of a mother of four in Dagestan. According to sources, he previously served as the imam of the Tarumovskaya mosque and had a reputation as a righteous man.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," a mother of four from the village of Krasny Voskhod was killed by her partner out of jealousy. The suspect has been detained, the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported. According to sources, the detained mullah regularly beat the woman.

The Kizlyar District Court has received a petition from investigators to select a preventive measure for a resident of the Kazbekovsky District suspected of committing murder. On the evening of December 13, 2025, the suspect arrived at the home of the 35-year-old victim (his second wife in a Muslim marriage) with their six-month-old child and children from another marriage. A conflict soon arose between the suspect and the woman, during which the man strangled the victim. He then took the body to the outskirts of the village of 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. Seven weeks later, the man decided to turn himself in to the investigative authorities. The suspect claimed the murder was motivated by jealousy, explaining that the victim had acted coldly toward him, and that based on one of her remarks, he assumed she was cheating on him. The court ordered the suspect to be remanded in custody for two months, or until April 2, 2026, the joint press service of the courts of Dagestan reported on its Telegram channel.

The mullah who strangled his wife worked as the imam of the Tarumovskaya mosque. He was dismissed from his position six months ago after his contract expired. In the village, he is known as a very righteous man, and news of the murder shocked the locals. The arrested man's name is Magomedali Mirzakhanov, writes Mash_Gor.

"Caucasian Knot," On January 29, police discovered the dismembered and charred body of 36-year-old mother of three, Malvina Magomedova. Derbent resident Rajidin Yaraliev was placed on the wanted list 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 Yaraliev had multiple criminal records, and that he and Magomedova had entered into a nikkah (Islamic marriage, - ed. "Caucasian Knot"). The Dagestan Ministry of Internal Affairs detained him that same day. He confessed to the murder and was arrested for two months. In December 2023, Saida Sirazhudinova, president of the Center for the Study of Global Contemporary and Regional Issues "Caucasus. World. Development," published a report titled "Domestic Violence in the North Caucasus: A Report on the Results of Monitoring the Situation in the Region and an Analysis of Judicial Practice." According to the report, in Ingushetia and Chechnya, the threat to women most often comes from within the family, while in Dagestan, women are much more often murdered by strangers, with many cases of murders during quarrels and during theft of property.