Don’t Want To End Up In A Drum’: UP Man Says Will Leave Cheating Wife

New Delhi:

A man who allegedly caught his wife and her lover together in his house complained to the police that he does not want to live with her anymore as he could be murdered and his body kept in a drum. The incident was reported from Mauranipur in Uttar Pradesh’s Jhansi district.

The woman, Ritu Verma, a clerk in a government girls’ college, had been in an affair with the local councillor Abhishek Pathak, her husband Pawan told the police. The couple has a six-year-old son.

Ever since he discovered the affair, he has been living separately, while his wife and son lived together in Mauranipur. Pawan works at the health department in UP’s Mahoba district.

He said he came to know his wife’s lover was at their house, after which he informed the police and went there to confront him. When the door opened, the local councillor came out from Pawan’s house and started threatening residents and even the police, the complaint said.