According to police on Sunday, a loco pilot here has accused his wife and brother-in-law of threatening to kill him, saying that he would suffer the same fate as the husband in the murder case of Meerut, whose body was dismembered and placed inside a drum.
The man said that his wife planned to kill him because she was pursuing his profession. In his police report, he claimed that he had also been abused by his brother and brother-in-law.
The complainant was referring to a case in Meerut earlier in March, in which a woman and her lover killed her husband, dismembered his body and kept it inside a drum before sealing it with cement.
The complainant, Sumit Kumar, a senior assistant loco pilot with the Railways and a native of Gaya, Bihar, in a complaint filed on Saturday has claimed to have overheard discussions between his wife and her brother on plans to murder him. The couple live in a rented house in Chittupur, the SHO said.
The officer cited the complaint and stated, “When confronted about this, his wife allegedly responded by saying they would kill him like the Meerut murder.”
Sumit then claimed that the two had physically abused him.
According to the SHO, police have filed a case in response to his complaint and are presently looking into the claims.