Luckknow:
A 33-year-old engineer in Etawah from Uttar Pradesh died by suicide after accusing his wife and parents-in-law of intimidation. Mohit Yadav recorded a video that were submitted to him that claimed threats and false things that were submitted to him. “If I don't get justice even after my death, throw my ashes in the drain,” he said in the video.
Yadav had checked in on Thursday at the Jolly Hotel outside the Etawah train station. He did not leave his room the next morning. The hotel staff found him hanging in the evening, said Abhay Nath Tripathi, Chief Inspector of Police (Stad).
Yadav, a resident of the Auraiya district, worked as a field engineer in a cement company. He and Priya had a relationship for seven years after they were married in 2023.
Priya was pregnant when she insured a private job in Bihar two months ago, but her mother let her break the child, Yadav claimed in the video. His mother -in -law also kept her jewelry with him, he claimed. He said he had no bridesmaid when they got married, but his wife threatened to submit false affairs against all his family members.
“My wife threatened me that if I did not register my house and ownership in her name, she would involve my family in a dowry shop. Her father, Manoj Kumar, submitted a false complaint and her brother threatened to kill me,” he said in the video. Since then he claimed that his wife started fighting with him every day and that her family supported her.
Yadav ended the video that apologized to his parents and urged them to throw his axis in the drain if he gets no righteousness even after his death.
He also thought about the absence of a law to protect men against false complaints submitted by women. “By the time you get this video, I will be away from this world. I would not have taken this step if there was a law for men. I could not tolerate intimidation by my wife and her family,” he said in the video.
Yadav had left for Kota but stopped in Etawah, said his brother Taren Pratap. The family was left shocked when they received his video on their phones on Friday morning.
A remark is rejected by Priya Yadav and her family.
The incident contributes to a growing demand for a law that protects men against false charges by women. A series of similar incidents since the suicide of Atul Subhash, a techie in Bengaluru who accused his wife of submitting false cases against him, had raised an alarm last year among the men's activists.
