Ghaziabad, April 04: A Software engineer committed suicide allegedly after beating his wife to death over dowry here, police said today.
Nitin had beaten his wife Anjana on Saturday following which he threw himself before a train, Superintendent of Police (City) J K Shahi said.
Anjana’s father Surender Sharma, however, in his written complaint to police said, Nitin committed suicide fearing police.
Sharma had lodged a complaint against his daughter Anjana’s in-laws yesterday charging them for demanding dowry, Shahi said.
A case of dowry has been registered against the husband Nitin, father-in-law Ved Prakash, mother-in-law Shushma, brother-in-law Sudheer and sister-in-law Pooja, he said.
—PTi