A man in Uttar Pradesh was allegedly strangled to death by his wife while her parents and brother held him down. After the gruesome crime, the woman and her family went on to hang the man’s lifeless body from a window grill with a muffler to make it appear like suicide.
News agency PTI, which reported on the crime in Bareilly, said that the postmortem report found strangulation to be the cause of death and ruled out suicide.
The crime came to light after police found the body of the victim, 33-year-old Jitendra Kumar Yadav, hanging at his rented house under the Izzat Nagar police station on 26 January.
A contract employee at the Indian Veterinary Research Institute (IVRI), Yadav was living at the house in Girija Shankar colony,…