Mangaluru: A 54-year-old man was remanded in three-day police custody on Saturday, after he was arrested on the charges of murdering his wife.
The accused is Joseph Francis, a resident of Chetana Nagar in Kumpala of Ullal police station limits.

According to police, on May 11, the accused and his wife Shyma,44, quarrelled, and he is alleged to have assaulted her.

However, the police were informed that she fell after she consumed poison, and was rushed to the hospital.

She died the same evening. Her parents arrived the next day, and a complaint was registered.

However, the provisional postmortem report and preliminary investigation indicated that the victim suffered internal head injuries.

Though the police retrieved a bottle of poison from the scene of the crime, the FSL report is expected to provide clarity, if the victim had consumed poison, or the accused had just placed a bottle there. An investigation is on.