Man escapes after killing wife, her alleged lover in Madhya Pradesh

Anand Yadav managed to escape after allegedly shot dead his wife Saroj and killed her supposed lover Hariom Agrawal with the help of an unidentified man at Mau in Madhya Pradesh's Bhind. A case was registered and police have started search operation against the accused.

Bhind (Madhya Pradesh): A 30-year-old labourer allegedly shot his wife dead and a man with whom he believed she was having an affair at Mau in Madhya Pradesh's Bhind district, police said on Monday.

Anand Yadav shot his wife Saroj (25) at their home in Hatwara area on Sunday and then went with an unidentified man and attacked Hariom Agrawal (45), an oil merchant, with a sharp-edged weapon some fifty metres away and shot him, Additional Superintendent of Police Sanjeev Singh Kanchan said.

"Yadav suspected his wife and Agrawal were having an affair. Yadav and the unidentified man are absconding. Yadav is a labourer who returned from Gwalior during the lockdown. Efforts are on to arrest him for the double murder," the Additional SP informed.

(PTI report)