Mohali, May 20 -- More than a year after a vegetable vendor was found dead in Kharar's Khuni Majra village, police have registered a murder case against his wife and three of her relatives after the victim's father alleged they had killed his son and tried to pass it off as suicide.

Complainant Mahender Pal, 69, of Bhilolia village in Uttar Pradesh, alleged that the relations between his son, Sorabh, and daughter-in-law, Pooja, were strained. He said that Sorabh frequently complained about his wife's behaviour and expressed fear that she, along with her brothers Subodh and Vinod and brother-in-law Narayan, could harm him.

According to the FIR, Sorabh, who worked as a vegetable vendor in Khuni Majra village, returned to his native villag...