Latest News | Man Bludgeons Wife to Death in Himachal's Sirmaur

Nahan (HP), Aug 19 (PTI) A 50-year old man allegedly killed his wife after a quarrel in the Paonta Sahib town of Sirmaur district in Himachal Pradesh, police said on Monday.

Sohan Singh, a native of Bulandshahar in Uttar Pradesh, was married to 44-year-old Raksha Devi of Mashva village in Sirmaur and had been living in a rental home in Paonta Sahib's Taruwala area.

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Following a quarrel around 11:30 pm on Sunday, Singh hit his wife on the head with a blunt object, the police said.

Her neighbours and landlord rushed her to the sub-divisional hospital, where doctors declared her dead, the police said.

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Additional Superintendent of Police (Sirmaur) Yogesh Rolta told PTI that the accused was nabbed near Bangaran Chowk in the early hours of Monday.

A murder case has been registered based on the statement of the couple's daughter, he added.

The body has been handed over to the woman's family members after post-mortem, Rolta said.

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