Unemployed man kills wife for not getting MBBS seat<\/p>\n
For all latest Medical jobs\u00a0Click here<\/a><\/p>\n For K Harika, a resident of Kusumanchi village in Telangana\u2019s Khammam district, securing an MBBS seat was a matter of life and death. Quite literally.<\/p>\n The 24-year-old woman was allegedly strangled and set on fire by her husband on Sunday night, after she failed to live up to his academic expectations for the third time in a row. Cyberabad police have arrested the accused \u2013 K Rushi Kumar (26) \u2013 in connection with the incident, which occurred at Rock Town Colony near Nagole on the outskirts of Hyderabad.<\/p>\n According to LB Nagar assistant police commissioner P Venugopal Rao, Kumar \u2013 an unemployed man who claims to hold a B Tech degree \u2013 had been staying in the colony with Harika (who happens to be his cousin) for the last two years.<\/p>\n \u201cThe relationship between the two was strained from the very start, with Rushi constantly pestering Harika to bring more dowry. The accused also wanted her to become a doctor, so he could live comfortably on the money she earned,\u201d Rao told HT, adding that he even threatened to divorce her unless she succeeded in securing an MBBS seat.<\/p>\n Harika appeared for the medical entrance examination twice, but failed to land an MBBS seat. She finally managed to secure a Bachelor of Dental Surgery seat at the Kamineni Medical College this year, but it wasn\u2019t good enough for Kumar.<\/p>\n According to a resident of the colony, a commotion broke out at the couple\u2019s place around 8 pm on Sunday. \u201cWe rushed there to find the half-burnt body of Rushi\u2019s wife. He had apparently set Harika afire after dousing her with kerosene, but \u2013 upon realising that smoke had begun billowing out of the house \u2013 decided to extinguish the flames with water. As there were no screams, it can only be assumed that he killed her before setting the body alight,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n