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The accused is Rakesh Kumar Gupta (29), a medical representative and a former state-level cricket player, and his wife Radha R (30) used to quarrel often with each other as she used to suspect his fidelity. The couple, who got married in 2016, hailed from Uttar Pradesh.
As per the sources, Rakesh confessed that he smashed his wife’s head with a rolling pin and then with the lid of a pressure cooker. He even banged her head against a wall after which she collapsed.
Gupta then called their neighbours and rushed her to a private hospital. He told the neighbours that she sustained severe head injuries after falling from the staircase of their house.