Coimbatore: A 23-year-old man stabbed the father of a young woman to death for refusing to get her married to him at S Kumarapalayam near Senjerimalai in Coimbatore district on Monday.
The deceased was identified as A George John Angelis, 62, from S Kumarapalayam near Senjerimalai.
Police said he was working as an accountant at a coir products manufacturing unit in the same locality. His wife Celine Romila, 52, is working as a headmistress at an elementary school at Odakkalpalayam.
The couple has two daughters. Their elder daughter is married and living in Bengaluru. The younger daughter is working in a private company at Marthandam in Kanyakumari district.
On Monday morning, George didn’t return to work after going for lunch to his house. He didn’t answer repeated calls from his wife as well.
She immediately informed the owner of the company where her husband is working.
Supervisors of the company Thangaraj and Ganesh rushed to the house around 3pm and found George lying dead in a pool of blood. There were stab injuries on his neck, abdomen and chest.
The Sultanpet police sent the dead body to the Coimbatore Medical College and Hospital (CMCH) for postmortem.
Preliminary investigations revealed that Karthick, 23, from S Kumarapalayam, was in an unrequited love with George’s younger daughter.
A few months ago, Karthick had approached George requesting him to get his daughter married to him. George, however, denied and fixed a betrothal for his daughter with another person recently.
In a fit of rage, Karthick had gone to George’s house on Monday afternoon and stabbed him to death using a knife. Later, he consumed pesticide and told the incident to his friends who took him to Palladam government hospital. Later, he was referred to the Tirupur government medical college and hospital. Doctors told the police that Karthick’s condition is critical. The police have registered a case. tnn