CHANDIGARH: Infuriated on being denied conjugal rights, a Haryana man strangled his wife to death on Tuesday night. According to police, 35-year-old Sanjiv Kumar, a native of village Jogna Khera in Haryana’s Kurukshetra district, killed his wife Suman after she resisted his attempt to have sex.

A murder case has been registered at the Kurukshetra University police station against Sanjiv Kumar for killing 30-year-old Suman, a housewife, after a midnight fight over conjugal rights. The couple have two children and were married for over a decade. The accused is a painter by profession. A case of murder was registered against Sanjiv and six other members of his family on a complaint made by Ravi Kumar.

“During investigation, Sanjiv confessed he had wanted to have intercourse with his wife, but she had refused. After she scolded the accused for trying to force himself on her, Sanjiv lost his cool and strangled her, leading to her death,” SHO Ramesh Kumar of Kurukshetra University police station told TOI. According to the police officer, Sanjiv admitted that his wife had been avoiding sexual intercourse because he was not well and had been diagnosed with symptoms of dengue fever