NEW DELHI: Festering disputes had turned the couple’s life into a tinderbox. The final spark was allegedly an argument over chore shirking: who would apply medicine to blisters on their child.It blew up and led to the death of a software engineer allegedly at the hands of his wife’s brothers, at his house in Delhi’s Nihal Vihar.Police have arrested four people on charge of 31-year-old Vinay Gupta’s murder — his wife Rekha Gupta (30), her brothers Raju Jindal (35) and Ved Prakash Jindal (33), and her sister-in-law and Raju’s wife Poonam (30).Raju is a chartered accountant, and Ved Prakash a businessman, police said.The couple had been married for three and a half years and has four-month-old twins, a boy and a girl. Police said the reason behind the murder was matrimonial disputes between Vinay, a techie at Adobe, Noida, and Rekha, a homemaker.
Sister: They hit & strangled Vinay
The victim’s sister Kirti told TOI an argument had broken out between the couple when Rekha refused to apply medicine to one of the children and asked Vinay to do it. “She left the house and returned 10 minutes later with her brothers and other family members. There were at least six people, and they started assaulting my father, my mother, and my brother,” she alleged.The accused hit Vinay and strangled him, Kirti alleged. “They sat on his chest and beat him,” she said, adding that there had been disputes between the couple earlier and that Vinay’s brothers-in-law had allegedly threatened him in the past.Vinay’s father, Prem Chand, told reporters that he initially believed Rekha’s relatives had come to talk. “So, I took them upstairs and offered them water. But as soon as my son arrived, they attacked him. I was standing in front of them, and they pushed me. My thumb appears to be fractured,” he said.Vinay’s mother said she and her husband pleaded with the attackers to stop. “I kept trying to remove them, but they pushed me away too,” she told reporters. Vinay’s wife stood watching the violence, said Divya-nsh Bansal, the husband of Vinay’s sister.CCTV footage surfaced showing a car arriving at the house with the alleged assailants. In another part of the footage, an injured man is seen being brought out of the house and made to sit on a chair. Vinay was taken to a hospital, where he was declared brought dead.
