Bengaluru: In a shocking incident, a husband set himself on fire in front of his wife’s residence in the Nagarbhavi locality of Bengaluru on Thursday after he was unable to convince her to withdraw the divorce petition. Police said that the deceased husband is identified as 39-year-old Manjunath, a resident of Kunigal town. He owned a cab. According to police, Manjunath had got married in 2013 and lived in a flat after marriage in Bengaluru. The couple had a 9-year-old boy. As differences cropped up between them, Manjunath had started living separately for two years and both had approached the court for divorce. However, Manjunath had come to the residence of his wife to convince her to withdraw the divorce petition from the court. Police stated that his wife had flatly refused the proposal and told him on his face that she had endured much turmoil with him. When she did not agree, he came with a can of petrol in front of the corridor of her house, torched himself and died on the spot. …