Agra: A 26-year-old man, who worked as a tailor in a private company based in Noida, allegedly stabbed to death by law in their home in Farrukhabad and then buried in a nearby empty plots on Sunday.
His parents-in-law and brother-in-law booked for murder on Monday.
The family did not approve of his marriage to their daughter.
Police said Ankit Awasthi’s body exhumed following the complaint by his wife, who suspected that her family had killed him.
Giving details, Vinod Kumar Shukla, Station House Officer of the police station Farrukhabad, said Neha Chauhan, 21, married with Awasthi years ago, on November 12, against the wishes of his family.
The woman’s parents previously lived in Noida and ran a grocery store there.
A few months ago, they have moved back to their original villages Bhagua Nagla in Farrukhabad.
Awasthi, who also came from Farrukhabad, has been living in a rented house in Jalalpur Noida for more than two years.
The couple met in Noida and stayed there after their marriage.
Talking to TOI on Tuesday, Neha said they visited the native village Ankit Sarha, to meet his parents on Bhai Dooj.
They then decided to visit her parents in the village of Nagla Bhagua on Sunday.
They go together but he went alone in her home to make peace with his parents.
Neha, who was waiting some distance away, called him, when he did not return.
To his surprise, the phone is turned off.
After waiting for some time, he went to his parents’ house and asked about her husband.
On his return, her parents beat her and then locked her in a room, Neha claims.
He told TOI that he suspected that they were planning to kill him, too.
“I saw my husband’s cell phone and a damaged blood stains in the house,” he said.
On Monday morning, when her parents were forcibly took him to a place in a car, he got away with a pretext to remove him and approached the police.
Shoar Shukla said a sharp edged weapon allegedly used to kill Awasthi.
“A fir has been registered against Neha’s father, Dharmendra Chauhan, his mother, Uma, and Brother, Prashant, under IPC Sections 302 (murder) and 201 (causing disappearance of evidence and giving false information).
Further investigation is on.”
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