Wife Murders Husband After Two Months of Marriage in Bareilly; Family Arrested

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News18•02-02-2026, 10:04
Wife Murders Husband After Two Months of Marriage in Bareilly; Family Arrested
- •Jitendra Kumar Yadav (33) was brutally murdered by his wife Jyoti in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, just two months after their nine-year love marriage.
- •Jyoti, along with her father and mother, initially tried to stage the murder as a suicide, hanging Jitendra's body from a window grill with a muffler.
- •The post-mortem report revealed strangulation as the cause of death, leading police to uncover the truth during their investigation.
- •Jyoti confessed to the crime, stating that an argument over Jitendra losing 20,000 rupees from her bank account in gambling led to the murder.
- •Police have arrested Jyoti, her father, and her mother; the search for Jitendra's brother-in-law, who also assisted in the crime, is ongoing.
Why It Matters: A love marriage in Bareilly ended in tragedy with the wife murdering her husband over a financial dispute.
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