Mumbai, March 17 A 42-year-old man has been arrested in Surat, Gujarat, for allegedly killing his wife by pushing her in front of an approaching local train at the Mulund railway station in Mumbai, police said on Tuesday.
Rajukumar Gupta, an electrician, had absconded with his younger son after the incident on Saturday, a police official said.
The deceased woman was identified as Pushpa Gupta (36). The incident was captured on CCTV.
According to a complaint filed by Kamlesh Kumar Gupta, the woman's brother, the couple had frequent arguments, and he had come to Mumbai to take his sister and his elder nephew back to their hometown in Uttar Pradesh.
On Saturday, when they were about to leave, Rajukumar and Pushpa had another heated argument, and Pushpa even filed a police complaint. Subsequently, Kamlesh, Pushpa, and her 15-year-old son reached the Mulund station.
Kamlesh, who works in the armed forces, realized that he had forgotten his ID card and went back to Rajukumar's house with his nephew to get it.
An enraged Rajukumar locked them inside the house. Then, Rajukumar reached the railway station and, seeing his wife on platform one, allegedly pushed her in front of an oncoming local train and fled.
The Kurla Government Railway Police have registered an FIR against Rajukumar under section 103 (murder) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita. He was tracked down in Surat with the help of CCTV footage, and further investigation is underway, the police official said.