Jagdish Makwana, an employee of the water department of the Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) has been arrested and hunt is on for two others allegedly involved in the crime, they said.
Makwana had allegedly hit his wife on her head with a wooden stick and killed her in broad daylight three days ago. The incident happened on a road in Bakrawadi, near the Baranpura locality in the presence of several people. He had managed to escape.
Makwana used to fight with his deceased wife Rekha for the last ten years for her inability to conceive a child.