Mumbai, Mar 17 (PTI) A 42-year-old man has been arrested from Surat in Gujarat for allegedly killing his wife by pushing her in front of an approaching local train at the Mulund railway station in Mumbai, police said on Tuesday.
Rajukumar Gupta, an electrician, had absconded with his younger son after Saturday’s incident, said a police official.
The deceased woman was identified as Pushpa Gupta (36). The incident was captured on CCTV.
As per the complaint filed by Kamlesh Kumar Gupta, the woman’s brother, the couple had frequent quarrels and hence he had come to Mumbai to take his sister and his elder nephew back to their native place in Uttar Pradesh.
On Saturday, when they were set to leave, Rajukumar and Pushpa again had a heated argument, and Pushpa even filed a police complaint. Subsequently, Kamlesh, Pushpa and her 15-year-old son reached the Mulund station.
Kamlesh, who works in the armed forces, realised that he had forgotten his ID card and went back to Rajukumar’s house with his nephew to get it.
An enraged Rajukumar locked them inside the house. The accused then reached the railway station, and seeing his wife on platform one, he allegedly pushed her in front of an oncoming local train and fled.
The Kurla Government Railway Police registered an FIR against Rajukumar under section 103 (murder) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita. He was tracked down in Surat with the help of CCTV footage and further investigation is underway, the police official said. PTI ZA KRK
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