India, Aug. 18 -- A 55-year-old man was arrested from an ashram in Qutubgarh for allegedly murdering his 50-year-old estranged wife by hitting her on the head with a hammer while she was asleep at her house in Devli Village near Neb Sarai, police said on Sunday. He disguised himself as a monk to kill the woman and took shelter at the ashram after the crime, they said.

Police said the accused, Pramod Jha, had returned to his estranged wife's house from his ancestral home in Bihar's Bariyarpur in Munger district, nearly 10 years after he left her and their children in Delhi due to marital discord, as he suspected her of having an extramarital affair.

The two of them came in contact in May, when the woman, Kiran Jha, went to attend her mot...