Police said investigation is ongoing (representational)
Bhadrak:
A drunk man reportedly beat his wife to death for not being able to serve her mangoes in the Bhadrak district of Odisha, police said on Tuesday.
The incident took place on Monday in the village of Jalamunda after the accused Kartik Jena returned home intoxicated late at night and asked his wife to give him mangoes to eat, the source said. police.
When his wife told him that their children had eaten all the mangoes, the man picked up a bamboo board and started beating it.
Hearing her cries, the neighbors rushed to their home and found the lying woman unconscious.
She was rushed to Dhamnagar hospital where doctors declared her dead.
Additional police superintendent Kailash Chandra Parida said Jena was arrested on Tuesday and an investigation is underway.
The body was sent for an autopsy.
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