Man beats wife to death for mangoes in Odisha

Bhadrak: In a shocking incident, a drunken man allegedly killed his wife as the latter did not give him mangoes to eat at Jalamandua village under Dhamnagar police station in Bhadrak district yesterday. However. police have detained the accused and are interrogating him in  connection with the incident.

As per sources Kartika Jena of the village returned to the  house in an inebriated condition last night and asked his wife Sasmita to give him mangoes to eat. However, the latter said their kids have eaten all mangoes . Irate over this, drunk Kartika started beating his wife with a bamboo plank killing her on the spot.

On receiving information, Dhamnagar police reached the spot and detained the accused. The cops also sent the body to a hospital here for post-mortem and initiated an inquiry.