A police constable shot dead his wife before shooting himself with his service weapon in Chhattisgarh's Rajnandgaon district, an official said on Saturday.
The incident took place on Friday night. The couple's four-year-old daughter was in the house at the time of the incident, he said.
Constable Mukesh Manhar lived with his family in his residential quarter in the premises of Manpur police station, located in an area affected by Naxalite violence, Rajnandgaon Additional Superintendent of Police Gorakhnath Baghel said.
As per preliminary information, the couple had a row on Friday night, after which the policeman shot his wife Babita before turning the Self-Loading Rifle (SLR) on himself, said the officer.
On hearing the gunshots, other policemen rushed to the spot and found the couple dead, he said.
Their bodies were sent for autopsy and the rifle, which was lying beside the constable's body, was seized.
No suicide note was found, the officer said.