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Bhubaneshwar: In a distressing incident, a 40-year-old man in Odisha’s Bhubaneswar allegedly murder his wife to death with a wooden plank after she verbally abused him while intoxicated, said police. The incident happened in a slum in Tarini Nagar in the Maitri Vihar police station area on Tuesday (March 12).
According to the police, the man, hails from Ganjam, resided in a rented accommodation with his wife and three sons.
Following the murder, which happened in a slum in Tarini Nagar in Maitri Vihar police station area on Tuesday, the man hid the body in a room, and lived with it for two days before being found by one of his sons on Thursday, they said.
The wife was in inebriated state and on Tuesday afternoon, she began abusing him after getting drunk. infuriated over it, the man allegedly beat her to death with a wooden plank, police said.
He hid the body in a room and locked it. On Thursday, their elder son, 19, returned to the house from their native place in Ganjam and found the body. He eventually informed the police.
The man was taken into custody, and the body was sent for post-mortem examination, police said. Further investigation is underway, they said.
