Man Bludgeons Wife To Death After She Refused To Make Chicken Fry For Him

A man in Bengaluru, the capital of the southern Indian state of Karnataka, has been accused of bludgeoning his wife to death because she refused to make chicken fry for him.

The suspect, a 30-year-old businessman identified as Mubarak Pasha, confessed to killing his wife, Shirin Banu, 28, and dumping her body in nearby Chikkabanavara Lake. Pasha has been arrested and is facing relevant charges, India TV reported.

The murder came to light after the parents of the deceased woman reported her missing since August 18 night. Following this, police launched an investigation as part of which they also interrogated Banu's other family members.

The police grew more suspicious after Pasha started to avoid them and intensified their search for the woman. On Monday, Pasha, accompanied by his lawyer, showed up at the police station and confessed to killing Banu, a mother of three children, and dumping her body into the lake.

"I told her to cook chicken fry on August 18 night. When I came home, I was disappointed to see there was no chicken fry. When I asked my wife, she replied arrogantly and, in a fit of rage, I smashed her head using a wooden log. The children were asleep then. Wrapping the body in a gunny bag, I carried it on my bike at midnight and disposed of it in Chikkabanavara lake," Pasha said, according to The Times Of India.

Banu's body is yet to be recovered from the lake.

In January 2020, a man in Kisumu, Kenya killed his wife for not making dinner for him. The incident took place after the man spent a night elsewhere and returned home the next morning, driving his wife angry. When the furious victim started to shout at him, the man strangled her to death in a fit of rage and fled the scene. The victim's daughter discovered the former lying dead on the bed and immediately alerted the cops. The girl told police that the couple fought regularly and that the man was her stepfather.