Man commits suicide after killing wife in Bikaner

A man apparently killed his wife and then committed suicide in Rajasthan's Bikaner district, police said Wednesday. The accused Bhawani Dan Charan (45) killed his wife Chanda Kanwar (42) with a sharp-edged weapon on Tuesday and later committed suicide by hanging himself from a tree in his field, Lunkaransar Station House Officer Ranjeet Ram said. The couple had a domestic dispute for quite sometime, the SHO added. The bodies were handed over to the family members after post-mortem, he said.

(With inputs from agencies.)