Meerut, Jan. 9 -- A man brutally killed his wife in a fit of rage after she refused to serve him dinner, in Devapur village under the Katghar police station area in Moradabad on Thursday evening.

According to the police, the accused identified as Raju Saini attacked his wife Poonam (40) when she refused to serve him food and insisted that the meal had not been prepared yet. Poonam was preparing fodder for animals in a nearby cattle shed when the argument escalated.

SP City Kumar Ran Vijay Singh said that Raju and Poonam earlier had frequent disputes over his drinking habit. The couple had a quarrel earlier on Thursday morning, after which Raju left the house without eating and spent the day working in the fields. When he returned home i...