Coimbatore: Drunk woman kills husband following scuffle, arrested

COIMBATORE: A 32-year-old woman and her brother-in-law were arrested on Tuesday for killing her husband in a state of drunken stupor at Periyakuyili near Chettipalayam in Coimbatore district.
The deceased, M Annamalai, 35, from Naduvaneri village in Salem was living in a rented house with his wife A Priya, 32, and two children at Periyakuyili. The couple were daily wage labourers and were used to drinking liquor after work. On many occasions, the couple fought with each other after getting drunk, police said.
On Sunday evening, the couple got involved in a heated argument after consuming liquor at their residence. In a fit of rage, Priya assaulted Annamalai with a stone. Annamalai suffered severe head injuries and died instantly. Police said she killed her husband in the presence of her minor daughter.
A few hours later, Priya became normal and found her husband lying dead in a pool of blood. She rang up her elder sister’s husband K Selvaraj, 35, from Jalikottai near Kanavaipudur in Salem district, who hired an ambulance and travelled to Coimbatore the same night.
The duo then took Annamalai’s body to his native place at Naduvaneri in Salem early on Monday and told the relatives that her husband had died after a fall under the influence of alcohol.
However, M Sengodan, 40, the elder brother of the deceased, refused to believe their version and informed Magudanchavadi police that there was something amiss. Police took the body to Salem government hospital for a postmortem, which revealed that Annamalai had died of head injuries.
Following the report, Chettipalayam police registered a case against Priya under IPC section 302 (murder) and section 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence, or giving false information) against Selvaraj. Both were arrested on Tuesday and remanded to judicial custody.