A bit Romeo and Juliet, with chicken

I've fallen out of the habit of checking on the Times of India for some of the oddest crime and legal reporting to be found on the planet. I'll skip linking to the husband jailed for 10 years for unnatural sex story (it is icky), but this one is pretty oddball, while admittedly tragic:

Couple commit suicide after argument over non-veg dinner during Navratvas

Some details:

According to police, on Tuesday evening, the man came home inebriated and asked his wife to cook chicken for him, but when she refused, he entered the kitchen and started cooking chicken himself. An argument ensued between them and the wife consumed poison. Later, the husband realised his mistake and he, too, ended his life by consuming poison....

According to their daughter, her mother used to keep fast throughout Navratras, and she got hurt when her father forcefully tried to cook chicken in the kitchen.

I've just found that the Times website makes cutting and pasting from their stories extraordinarily difficult.  So it's probably not a habit I'll get into again in a big way.

Update.  Ugh:  it's still a nation where the idea of human sacrifice has a hold in some quarters (allegedly!):

 The poor kid's decapitated body was found in a pond in the village, indicating that tantric magic practitioners aren't exactly criminal masterminds.