A 46-year-old man from Bhiwandi in Thane district was arrested on Monday for allegedly hacking to death his wife in a market a day earlier, police said.

Anand Rambhau Waghmare and his wife Meena (40) would quarrel often and after one such argument on Sunday at around 5:30pm, he attacked her with a chopper in the market near Varala Devi temple and killed her, said a Bhiwandi Town police station official.