Kanpur man held for killing second wife, dumping body on highway

Prayagraj: A Kanpur man was arrested on Monday for allegedly killing his 30-year-old second wife, stuffing her body in a trunk and dumping it on the Kanpur-Varanasi highway in Kaushambi’s Kokhraj area on April 15. He had married her in a temple a year ago despite already being married.Along with the prime accused, Harsh Khiyani alias Bittu (37), his friend Yash Gupta was also arrested by the Kaushambi police. Gupta allegedly helped Khiyani in dumping the body and destroying the evidence.Following the recovery of the body, senior cops had constituted three police teams, including SOG, to crack the case. After the autopsy report revealed strangulation as the cause of death, a case under Section 103(1) and 238(a) of BNS was filed against unknown persons.Police said Khiyani led a double life. He was married twice — his first wife lived in Kanpur’s Ratan Lal Nagar and the second in Sharda Nagar. Khiyani confessed that he married Moni Verma, 30, in a temple a year ago despite his first marriage. For the past few weeks, he said Moni had been mounting pressure on him to live with the family members. The accused made several futile attempts to pacify her but she was adamant.