In a bizarre incident, one Gautam Puhana shot dead his wife over a family feud at Dahani Gadia under the Town police station here on Tuesday.
The deceased was identified as Annapurna Puhana.
Sources said Gautam, who works as a security guard of a local industrialist Ajay Agarwal, had a heated altercation with his wife Annapurna over some issue in the morning. However, during the argument, in a fit of rage Gautam took out his service rifle and fired at his wife from close range.
She suffered bullet injuries on her neck and was rushed to the District Headquarters Hospital by some neighbours. But she succumbed to the injuries.
later, police rushed to the spot and arrested the accused after seizing his rifle. While an investigation is underway in the incident police said the accused security guard is suspected to be mentally unstable.