<p class="title">A 45-year-old tribal villager was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly pushing his wife to death in a river after a quarrel in Maharashtra's Thane district, police said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Dashrath Waghe, a resident of Khadavli village, had a fight with his wife Surekha Waghe (42) on Monday night when she objected to his drinking habit, police inspector Balaji Phandhare said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Around 11.30 pm, the man allegedly pushed his wife into the Bhatsa river following which she drowned, he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">A passer-by saw this and alerted the police who rushed to the spot and fished out the body, he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The accused was arrested on Tuesday morning and booked under Indian Penal Code Sections 302 (murder) and 201 (causing the disappearance of evidence of offence), he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The body was sent for postmortem, he added. </p>
<p class="title">A 45-year-old tribal villager was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly pushing his wife to death in a river after a quarrel in Maharashtra's Thane district, police said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Dashrath Waghe, a resident of Khadavli village, had a fight with his wife Surekha Waghe (42) on Monday night when she objected to his drinking habit, police inspector Balaji Phandhare said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Around 11.30 pm, the man allegedly pushed his wife into the Bhatsa river following which she drowned, he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">A passer-by saw this and alerted the police who rushed to the spot and fished out the body, he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The accused was arrested on Tuesday morning and booked under Indian Penal Code Sections 302 (murder) and 201 (causing the disappearance of evidence of offence), he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The body was sent for postmortem, he added. </p>