India, June 8 -- A fatal road accident in Karad has turned out to be a premeditated murder allegedly masterminded by the victim's wife and her brother following prolonged marital disputes, police said.

On June 6, Laxman Shrirang Mandale, 54, an engineer with the water resources department in Shahapur, Thane district, was found fatally injured shortly after arriving in Karad. Mandale reached the Karad bus stop at approximately 5:53 am and informed his wife Surekha Mandale, 36, to pick him up from the Kolhapur naka area. However, he was discovered critically injured a short distance from the bus stand near Kamal Hospital. Passersby alerted emergency services, and Mandale was rushed to a nearby hospital, where he was declared dead on arriva...