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 ASP, West, Radhey Shyam Rai said the victim, identified as Sushma Yadav, who was married to Mukesh Yadav on February 13, 2023. He said Sushma's brother Veer Pratap Yadav had complained to the police in May, 2025 of domestic violence and dowry harassment, but the matter was sorted out with mutual understanding then. "We immediately tracked the location of the victim's husband and took him into custody for interrogation. He confessed to killing the woman and revealed the entire sequence of events," he stated and added, "The accused has been arrested after registering an FIR under appropriate BNS sections and has been sent to jail after producing him before the competent court". He said Mukesh and three other family members have been charged with murder and dowry harassment in the FIR registered in the matter. The ASP further narrated the incident that the accused, Mukesh, strangled his wife to death after having altercations when he had taken her for medical examination. He said the police tracked down Mukesh using his mobile location and arrested him from Patparganj bridge, from where he was trying to flee to Ayodhya....