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“We arrested Nishad’s wife on Tuesday,” Shivaji Gaware, the inspector of the Hinjewadi police, said.Nishad hailed from Chhattisgarh. He stayed with his wife at Pandharevasti in a labour colony. Our team went to the Pandhare Vasti and took the woman into custody ,” Gaware said.The woman has been booked under Section 302 (Punishment for murder) of the Indian Penal Code.“We are investigating the case,” an officer from the Hinjewadi police station said. He had been working as a construction labourer in Punawale for the last few years. His wife too worked at a construction site in Punawale“Prima facie the investigation revealed that Nishad, an alcoholic, would beat up his wife regularly,” Gaware said.On Monday evening, Nishad in an inebriated state, got into a brawl with his wife and began thrashing her again..