Chennai: A woman hammer her husband died to prevent her from attacking their 20-year-old daughter in Otteri at Chennai City.
Bringing the blood hammer, the woman gave up before the Otner police station at Wee Friday.
The Otner police registered a case below the IPC 302 section and held the woman to be questioned.
The police released it after further investigation.
“Investigative officers preferred not to catch the woman when she killed her husband to save her daughter,” said Deputy Commissioner of Police Pulianthope I Eswaran.
The police said the woman, the native of Kerala, had lived with her husband and her in-laws as a family together for the past two decades.
His father-in-law, tailor, has settled in the city at least five decades ago and has several houses in Otteria.
Both women and her husband were not employed and their daughter, studied at a college in the city, and kid, studied in class VI was raised by the man’s parents.
While the girl often lived with her grandparents, on Thursday night she slept with her parents when her grandparents were at a relative home.
While the woman, her husband and son slept on the bed, their daughter slept on the floor.
In your time, the woman woke up to listen to her daughter’s cry and saw her husband trying to force myself to their daughter.
The woman and her young son tried to drag the man from his daughter, but he pushed them away.
The woman then won the hammer lying nearby and hit her husband repeatedly on the head, killing her.
After this, he gave up before the police station and told them that he had killed her husband.
The Otner Inspector from the police Johnny Chellappa officially ordered it on charges of murder but then released him because he acted self-defense.
The investigative officer said they would gather all the evidence and substantial witnesses to prove that the woman killed her husband in self-defense.
“We will send detailed final reports before the court after gathering witness evidence and statements,” said DCP Eswaran.