A 40-year-old man was nabbed for beating his wife to death at Banjari under Kolar police station area on Wednesday; accused was heavily inebriated at the time of the incident.
According to the police, a woman was brutally beaten at Banjari area late in the afternoon and when the locals reached to her rescue the man assaulting the woman escaped. The deceased was rushed to a nearby hospital where she was declared dead.
Deceased was identified as Bhagwati Kushwaha (35) while the man assaulting her was identified as her husband Kailash Kuswaha (40).
CSP Habibganj CM Dwivedi said that the accused had a fight with his wife on Tuesday night but on Wednesday he thrashed his wife brutally which proved fatal for her. The accused was later detained by the police.
Both husband and wife used to work as labours at an under construction building at Banjari and used to live in a shanty near the under construction building, he added.
The locals informed the police and on the receipt of the information a police team reached the spot but before the police could reach the spot the accused managed to escape but was later nabbed by Kolar police.
After the preliminary investigation the body was sent for the post mortem and police have registered a case under section 302 of the IPC and have started further investigation. In the initial investigations police found that the accused was heavily addicted to drugs and at the time of the incident he was in an inebriated state.