MP man kills wife over extramarital affair, dies by suicide; paramour also ends life

May 26, 2026 English Page 4

MP man kills wife over extramarital affair, dies by suicide; paramour also ends life

PT News Indore, May 25

A 34-year-old man allegedly killed his wife and died by suicide over her extramarital affair in Madhya Pradesh’s Indore district, triggering a chain of events where the woman’s paramour also ended his life, police said on Monday. The man strangled his 28-year-old wife at their house in Indore city’s Hira Nagar area on Sunday, allegedly following a dispute over her extramarital affair, and then committed suicide by consuming poison, an official said. He said that in a suicide note recovered from the scene, the husband alleged that a man living in Pithampur had seduced his wife, established physical relations with her and had threatened to circulate private photos of her on social media.

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