India, Sept. 17 -- A 39-year-old police constable has been arrested on charges of killing his wife, a traffic police constable, in state capital Bhubaneswar and burying her body in the Keonjhar forests 200km away, the Odisha police said on Wednesday.

Bhubaneswar-Cuttack police commissioner S Dev Datta Singh said Deepak Rout was suspected to have killed his wife following disputes over financial matters, including Subhamitra Sahu's insistence that he foot the bill for a grand wedding also led to frequent quarrels.

Rout, who worked in the accounts department of Police Sewa Bhawan, married Subhamitra, a traffic constable, in July 2024. But at the time, they had opted for a low-key court marriage, police said.

"Rout kept on delaying on Sub...