LUCKNOW, Oct. 30 -- : In a gruesome incident, a man strangled his five-month pregnant wife, smashed her head and gouged out her one eye before placing the body on a roadside, nearly 100 metres from his house in a Gonda village under Nawabganj police station limits, to pose it as an accident on Tuesday night.

The accused planted her purse and belongings around the spot to project it as a real accident spot, but this trick did not last for long and the police arrested him within a few hours after the incident on Wednesday, confirmed senior police officials.

Gonda additional superintendent of police (ASP), West, Radhey Shyam Rai said the victim, identified as Sushma Yadav, who was married to Mukesh Yadav on February 13, 2023.

He said Sush...