In the end it was one too many. A man wanted to get rid off his second wife. And how does he do it? By burning her. Gruesome? Yes, but true.

In the process, however, he killed both his life partners.

Two women were burnt to death when the car they were travelling in caught fire in Chitalwana, Jalore district of Rajasthan on Tuesday.

The two, Maluy Devi and Dariya Devi were burnt alive despite efforts by bystanders to open the doors to pull them out.

The husband Deeparam Prajapat and his child son survived the fire with minor burns. He has three children from the two wives.

The man has confessed before the police that he had married a second time because his first wife was not keeping well. However, the new wife was frequently quarrelling with the first one as well as with him.

Fed up he decided to bump off the second wife, disguising it as an accident. A couple of weeks back he bought petrol. On Tuesday, when he was taking both his wives out in a car, the second wife began to fight again.

Angry the man poured petrol on the car and set it on fire. He could pull his son out but was unable to open the door to save his first wife.

Bystanders rushed to put the fire under control but failed to save the two women.

"I regret it now," he told media persons in police custody.

"But I tried to save my first wife. I also had waited endlessly for things to improve but could not help it in the end,' he added.

Editor's note: An earlier PTI report published on our site said that the man set both his wives on fire for not keeping his mother happy.

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