A labourer in Punjab's Amritsar has been arrested for allegedly killing his pregnant wife, police officials were quoted by ANI as saying. 

The couple, according to locals had been married around 3 years ago used to have frequent arguments

As per the report, Sukhdev Singh allegedly tied his 23-year-old wife Pinki, who was six months pregnant with twins, to a cot before setting her ablaze. 

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“The couple, according to locals had been married around 3 years ago used to have frequent arguments. On Friday too they had a heated arguments after which Sukhdev set his wife on fire,” Beas station house officer (SHO) Gurwinder Singh said.

The accused was arrested late on Saturday and produced before a court, which remanded him to police custody for two days, Singh added. 

Earlier, the National Commission for Women (NCW) chief Rekha Sharma had written a letter to the Punjab director general of Police (DGP), seeking the arrest of accused and an action report in three days. "Appalled by the horrifying incident in Amritsar where a man allegedly set his pregnant wife on fire. The brutality of this act is unimaginable. Chairperson NCW @sharmarekha has written a letter to DGP Punjab to arrest the perpetrator and submit an action report in three days," the NCW had said in a post on 'X' on Saturday.

In an unrelated incident in Punjab, a 31-year-old man was burnt alive inside his truck parked near a filling station at Bija in Punjab's Ludhiana district, PTI quoted the police officials as saying.