A 26-year-old man allegedly beheaded his wife following a heated argument on the outskirts of Bengaluru after he suspected her of having an extra-marital affair, police said on Saturday.

Fresh CCTV footage of an Indore couple, who went missing in Meghalaya last month, have been released by the state police, amid an intensified probe to trace the woman after her husband’s body was found last week.

The surreal theft highlights an all-too-familiar problem in temple towns—mischievous monkeys turning into petty criminals amid crowds of devotees.