Overview
- A domestic dispute in Chimnibhati Pada, Bolangir, reportedly escalated when a wife struck her husband on the head with a mobile phone, according to police and relatives.
- The man was taken to the District Headquarters Hospital in Bolangir, discharged after doctors noted improvement, and then suffered a sudden deterioration at home before dying.
- Police opened an active investigation, sent the body for post-mortem and are questioning family members and other persons of interest as they collect evidence.
- An autopsy report cited by one outlet found no external injury and attributed the death to liver failure linked to heavy drinking, a finding that differs from relatives’ claims of fatal head trauma.
- Authorities say any criminal action will follow the full post-mortem and forensic findings, and a single headline that the wife was 'booked' has not been corroborated in other reports.