‘Who would apply medicine to child’s blisters?’: Delhi techie killed by in-laws; wife, 3 held
A software engineer in Delhi was allegedly murdered by his wife and her relatives following a domestic dispute over childcare responsibilities. Police have arrested four individuals, including the victim's wife, in connection with the fatal assault.
Why it matters
This incident highlights the severity of domestic violence and the tragic consequences of escalating matrimonial disputes.
NEW DELHI: Festering disputes had turned the couple’s life into a tinderbox. The final spark was allegedly an argument over chore shirking: who would apply medicine to blisters on their child.It blew up and led to the death of a software engineer allegedly at the hands of his wife’s brothers, at his house in Delhi’s Nihal Vihar.Police have arrested four people on charge of 31-year-old Vinay Gupta’s murder — his wife Rekha Gupta (30), her brothers Raju Jindal (35) and Ved Prakash Jindal (33), and her sister-in-law and Raju’s wife Poonam (30).Raju is a chartered accountant, and Ved Prakash a businessman, police said.The couple had been married for three and a half years and has four-month-old twins, a boy and a girl.
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