Police arrested a man on charge of killing his wife from Butwal Sub-Metropolitan in New Buspark on Sunday morning.
The deceased has been identified as Saraswoti Poudel (32).
The accused has been identified as Hira Poudel (39), a local resident of Rainadevi Rural Municipality-4 in Palpa district.
Hira had been begging in the area of Butwal Sub-Metropolitan-9 in the New bus park area for the past two/three months. Hira allegedly beat his wife leading to severe injury which led her to falling unconscious. Acting on a tip-off, security personnel deployed from Butwal bus park-based Police Circle took Saraswoti to Lumbini Provincial Hospital for treatment but she died while undergoing treatment, said the police.
Further investigation into the case is being carried out, informed the police.
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