India, Sept. 4 -- A man shot his estranged wife in a market in Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur on Wednesday evening, after an argument broke out between them.

The incident took place around 8 pm in the Gorakhpur market, where the woman had gone to a studio for photographs, India Today reported. The accused, Vishwakarma, and his wife Mamta alias Mukti Chauhan, 30, were involved in a property dispute for the past ten years, and had been living separately for one-and-a-half-years.

The accused allegedly fled the spot after shooting the woman, but was nabbed by the police, and is being interrogated. The victim, who was bleeding heavily, was rushed to a private hospital, where the doctors declared her dead on arrival.

Mamta, who hailed from Khajni...