Muthusamy alias Mohammad, 27, told the New Straits Times that he believed his wife was murdered by a public figure in Chennai.
He alleged the man had marked him when he did not testify against a man who had killed a member of his family four years ago.
"He wanted me to say that I saw the suspect murder one of his family member but I didn't as I did not see the murderer," he said.
Muthusamy, an Indian with Malaysian permanent resident status, added that the man's anger could have also been fuelled when he learnt that his sister was having an affair with Muthusamy's brother, Vasu, in 2002.
He said the woman, Aseth Begum, who was married with two children, was then pregnant with Vasu's child.
Muthusamy claimed the woman had since gone missing.
Muthusamy said his wife M. Adhila Banu, 24, and their children, Ajira Banu, 5, and Mohd Aslam, 7, had returned to his village in Sattankulam to seek reconciliation with his family.
The villagers there had ostracised the couple after Muthusamy converted to Islam before he married Adhila in 2002.
The couple moved to Malaysia shortly after they were married and Muthusamy started working as a driver here.
Adhila had been staying with her mother in Barathi Nagar, Ramanathapuram District when she and her children were abducted in front of a petrol kiosk.
On Nov 8, they had gone to a nearby sundry shop to buy cooking gas when they were believed to have been kidnapped.
They were found strangled and their bodies dumped in a swollen canal in Vadipatti, Madurai, about 160km from their house, three days later.
It was reported earlier that police investigations had revealed a gang had demanded 250,000 Indian rupees (RM17,000) from the victim's family, who refused to pay.
On Nov 13, Indian police detained two men in connection with the murders.
Vadipatti police inspector P.R. Lakshmanan said so far one of the men had remained tight-lipped about his involvement and the other had been cooperative in revealing information about the case.
He said police had seized a four-wheel-drive believed to have been used in the kidnap.
He added that three Indian nationals, who were among 20 people questioned over the murders, were believed to be in Malaysia.
The three -- Sahul Kaja Mohaideen, 32, Mohd Harshad @ Lala s/o Sajahan, 24, and Manivannan Thinagaran, 23, left for Kuala Lumpur from Chennai on Nov 12 on a Jet Airways flight.
Lakshmanan said they would be liasing with Interpol and their Malaysian counterparts to find them.
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