Tamil Nadu: Man kills wife, fakes electrocution, held

CHENNAI: A man killed his wife in Chengalpet on Saturday night, angered that she was chatting with a friend over phone, and tried to pass it off as an electrocution.
Police detained Ranjith Kumar, 30, of Kazhanipakkam in Madurantakam on Sunday when he was hurriedly trying to bury his 25-year-old wife Sudhamathi's body. Ranjith had called up her relatives and said she was electrocuted while ironing clothes at home and that he was burying the body at once as it was decomposing. The relatives got suspicious and alerted the Madurantakam police, who went to Ranjith's house and found the body had injury marks on the head and neck.
Police sent the body for an autopsy to the Chengalpet government hospital where doctors confirmed that there were severe injuries on the head and that Sudhamathi had been strangled.
Following this, police on Monday formally arrested Ranjith who confessed to the murder under sustained interrogation. Police said on Saturday evening, Sudhamathi was on the phone for long when Ranjith Kumar came home in the evening.
The couple had a love match five years ago, but Ranjith keep picking fights with Sudhamathi suspecting her fidelity.
On Saturday too he got angry when she said she was talking to a friend and beat her up with a log. He later strangled her using a rope.
Ranjith, employed in a private firm, was booked for murder and remanded in judicial custody. The couple have two children.