Coimbatore: Man kills wife’s lover, arrested

COIMBATORE: A 21-year-old youth was murdered by his lover’s husband at Gandhi Nagar in Nagarajapuram here on Thursday.
The deceased, A Isakki Lingam, a native of Thisayanvilai in Thoothukudi district, had been working in a sweet shop at Kuniyamuthur for the last three years, police said.
“He had befriended his colleague, a Podanur resident, last year and the friendship turned into an affair. The woman brought Lingam to her house four months ago and requested her husband S Abubacker Siddiq, 36, a labourer, to let him stay with the family as the shop was closed due to Covid-19 and he had no place to go. Siddiq agreed. After coming to know that his wife was having an affair with the youth, he warned her and the youth. On Thursday night, Siddiq called Lingam’s relative L Elisha Mary of Vilankurichi to inform her that the youth died following an epileptic attack,” a police officer said.
Mary, who noticed injuries on Lingam’s body, approached the Podanur police, who arrested Siddiq. He told police that he had stabbed Lingam to death using a knife.