NEW DELHI: Aman paid with his life for objecting to his wife having an affair with his brother. After strangling him at Shantivan near Rajghat on August 23, the woman called her brother-in-law and crushed the victim’s face to hide his identity before dumping the body in a nearby drain.However, the same day, the police found the body with an Aadhaar card and a mobile phone in a pocket. The postmortem said he had died due to asphyxia. A week later, cops identified him as Rajesh Kumar, a resident of Hathras in Uttar Pradesh. When they contacted his widow, Anita, she tried to misguide them with a robbery angle, taking cues from the Bollywood movie, Drishyam Although it initially sent the police on a wild goose chase, they soon identified some discrepancies in her statements about her locations on the day of the crime. “A team led by ACP Geetanjali Khandelwal and SHO Mangesh Gedam was formed to track the killers. It was found that no missing complaint was registered by his family members,” said Mandeep Singh Randhawa, DCP (central).While checking the call details, investigators zeroed in on one number from which a call came even on the day of the incident. The number was found registered in the name of the deceased himself but was being used by his wife. Anita claimed that following an argument, her husband left home to go back to Hathras. She even showed cops the copy of a train ticket he had printed.Cops initially believed her but, on talking to neighbours, found that while Rajesh was away, someone else regularly visited Anita. A police team was also sent to Hathras and his relatives, too, repeated Anita’s version. They also said they had got to know about it from Rajesh’s brother, Vijay. This made cops suspicious and after finding the contradictory statements, they started interrogating Anita and Vijay.Although both initially claimed to be ignorant, Anita confessed when cops confronted her with Vijay. Vijay said his wife of five years had left him and their two daughters two years ago and he started having an illicit relationship with Anita since his brother’s marriage a year ago. Once Rajesh got to know about it, he shifted to Delhi. But Vijay kept meeting Anita.On the fateful day, Rajesh did leave home for Hathras in a huff, but Anita called him to Shantivan to resolve the issue after he reached the station, cops said. A murder case has been registered.