Sant Kabir Nagar, March 29 -- Fearful of becoming the next victim in a growing trend of spousal murders, a man in Uttar Pradesh took an extraordinary step - he arranged for his wife to marry her lover, even becoming a witness to their union.

Bablu, a laborer from Katar Jot village in Sant Kabir Nagar, had been married to Radhika since 2017. The couple, parents to two children, lived apart due to Bablu's work in another state. But when he discovered that Radhika had been in a relationship with Vikas, a man from their village, for over 18 months, he did not react with anger or confrontation. Instead, he decided on an unconventional solution.

Rather than risk the fate of recent victims in Meerut and Auraiya-where wives, along with their love...