Witness the case of a 30-year-old Indian software engineer who killed his wife, suspecting her fidelity and went to hang himself.

Amit Budhiraja, employed with the Infosys, a leading IT firm, was found hanging at his residence in the southern Indian city of  Bangalore Sunday.

His wife Rinku Sachdev (28) was lying dead on the bed. A suicide note was found at the spot.

He first smothered his wife to death with a pillow and then hanged himself from a ceiling fan.

The incident came to light on Sunday when Rinku’s friend Urmila went to their house after her repeated calls to Rinku went unanswered. Rinku and Urmila had planned to go for a movie that day.

Finally the door was broken open, and the police recovered a suicide note left behind by Amit. It stated that unable to endure his wife’s extra-marital affair any longer he was bringing an end to their tortured lives.

While Amit Budhiraja was from the Indian capital of New Delhi, Rinku, a marketing executive, was from Mumbai, the commercial metropolis.

New Delhi and Mumbai are worlds apart, culturally, the Indian capital still struggling to catch up with modernity. It is essentially patriarchal and characterized by male chauvinism of a high order. Though Mumbai is not exactly liberated, women there do enjoy a measure of freedom.