JAIPUR/UDAIPUR: Irked over being questioned about his prolonged unemployment, a 30-year-old man in

strangulated his wife and kept her decaying body inside the house for two days even as his terror-stricken children remained mum after witnessing the grisly act.

The accused kept the body in a sitting position in the corner of a room for two days where he cooked food and ate it with his two kids.

The matter came to light when a police team raided the house and arrested the accused identified as Naresh Menaria, a resident of Chorvadi area here under

police station. Deputy superintendent of police Dinesh Singh said that the accused had killed his wife on Wednesday and sternly told his two boys not to reveal the murder to anyone.

“On Saturday morning Naresh asked his elder son to get a packet of milk from the market. His despondent 10-year-old son broke down in front of his grandfather in the market,” Singh said, adding that when the accused’s grandfather Chunni Lal realized that something was fishy, he went to his son’s house.

The accused misbehaved with his father and refused to let him come in. Naresh locked the doors and threw stones at his father. “Chunni Lal informed the police and cops raided his house. His wife Vidhya’s body was found in the house on the floor while two kids stood in the corner in horror,” an official said.

The sources told TOI that the accused had cooked and eaten food near his wife’s body while his kids kept crying. The horrifying crime shocked the entire village as residents kept pouring in to check on children.

Chunni Lal has lodged a case against his own son and told cops that his son was unemployed and would regularly beat up his wife.