A 40-year-old woman, Rusia Mallick, was allegedly killed by her alcoholic husband following an altercation between the two at Derakeshpur village under the Derabish police station in Kendrapada district on Monday.
Acting on information, the Derabish police rushed to the spot and sent the dead body to the District Headquarters Hospital (DHH) for postmortem. The deceased’s brother lodged an FIR at Derabish police station alleging that his sister was strangulated to death by her husband Narahari. The accused later hanged her body in a rope to give it a suicide look. Investigation is on into the alleged matter, police said.