A Thane man has been arrested for allegedly strangling his wife after a domestic dispute, prompting a police investigation into the tragic incident.
A 32-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly strangling his wife over a dispute at their home in Maharashtra's Thane city, police said on Saturday.
The accused, Naresh Kamalsingh Khadka, was apprehended at Panvel in Navi Mumbai within 24 hours of the crime, which occurred in the wee hours of Friday, senior inspector Abhay Mahajan of the Naupada police station said.
The accused allegedly strangled his wife, Hima Khadka, at their residence in Agakhanwadi over a domestic discord, he said.
The couple's neighbours alerted the police, who rushed to the spot and sent the body for a postmortem to a government hospital, the official said, adding that Khadka fled the scene after the murder and was tracked down by police teams.
A case has been registered under section 103(1) (murder) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, and further investigations are underway to ascertain the exact motive behind the killing, Mahajan said.