Couple Found Dead After Wife Refused To Cook Fish For DInner

A couple, belonging to the fishing community, was found dead at their home in India’s Telangana on Sunday, Feb. 20. The couple allegedly killed themselves after a heated argument over fish curry, according to reports.

The man, 40-year-old Namala Shankar and his 35-year-old wife, Namala Sujatha, were found dead inside their home at the Ramareddy village in Kamareddy district on Sunday night, the New Indian Express reported.

Their six-year-old son, Prem Kumar found them hanging from the ceiling and informed his grandmother who then alerted the police, according to the officials.

First responders arrived at the scene and found the couple unresponsive. They were declared dead at the scene and the bodies were shifted to the medical examiner’s office for an autopsy, the police said.

According to local sources, the couple often engaged in altercations with each other, some of which had even led to physical assaults.

The duo had even attended a counseling session at the Sirikonda police station recently, the police said.

On Sunday, Shankar caught three fish, of which he sold two, and returned home with the remaining one. He asked his wife to cook fish curry for dinner, but she reportedly refused. This gave way to a verbal spat between the duo, sources said.

A few hours after this argument, the duo was found hanging dead, police said.

It is unclear if Shankar killed Sujatha before hanging himself to death, however, an investigation is ongoing and officers are questioning the victims’ family and neighbors to gain a possible lead into the alleged suicide.

A similar incident was reported from the Indian state of Odisha when a man allegedly stabbed his 45-year-old mother to death after she refused to cook egg curry for dinner.

The shocking and bizarre incident happened on the night of Nov.22, at the victim’s home in the Jharsuguda district.

The accused son, Rajesh Bhoi, a daily wage laborer, had returned home after work with some eggs from the market.

He reportedly asked his mother to cook some egg curry for dinner. However, his mother, Kumudini Bhoi refused to do so, saying she had already prepared dinner and that she will cook the eggs some other day.

Enraged by her reply, Rajesh repeatedly stabbed his mother on her head and neck, sources said.

The accused was arrested for murder, Jharsuguda Sub-Divisional Police Officer (SDPO), Nirmal Mahapatra said.