MATHURA: A man disguised as a woman has set his married lover on fire inside her house here after she refused to leave with him, police said.As the woman’s neighbours rushed to her house after hearing her screams on Tuesday afternoon, the accused, Umesh (28), tried to escape by jumping from the terrace but sustained severe injuries, police said.Both Rekha (30), who suffered over 70 per cent burns, and Umesh are undergoing treatment at SN Medical College in Agra, they said.Rekha, a resident of Koh village, was alone at home watching TV when the incident occurred.Her children, aged seven and five, were at school and her husband Sanju, a farm labourer, was away at work, Farah police station in-charge Sanjay Kumar Pandey said.Around noon, Umesh, a resident of Hasanpur village in Haryana and the brother of Rekha’s elder sister-in-law, reached her house with a bottle of petrol, the police official said.”Umesh was wearing a lehenga to disguise himself as a woman and was dropped off near the village by a friend on a motorcycle. He entered Rekha’s house from the terrace, walked into her room and pressured her to leave with him. When she refused, he poured petrol on her and set her on fire,” Pandey said.
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