COIMBATORE: The Sri Lankan Tamil refugee, who beat his second wife to death with a cricket bat at their rental house at Gandhi Maanagar in the city, was arrested on Tuesday night.
Police had earlier formed four special teams to nab the accused, 49-year-old Lavendran alias Kumar.
Lavendran had murdered his 32-year-old wife L Kavitha on Monday night, following a quarrel over her excessive use of mobile phone.
While Kavitha’s relative S Nagarajan happened to reach the spot when Lavendran was assaulting her with the cricket bat, he couldn’t do anything to save her.
Nagarajan alerted the Saravanampatti police, who registered a case under Section 302 (murder) of the Indian Penal Code and formed four special teams to nab Lavendran.
One of the teams was sent to Rameswaram to prevent Lavendran from escaping to Sri Lanka.
The Q-branch police at Mandapam in Ramanathapuram were also alerted about the incident.
On Tuesday night, one of the special teams nabbed the accused near Bhavani Sagar in Erode district.
“During the interrogation, Lavendran said he had doubted that his wife was having illegal affairs as she was often on the phone.” Police have produced Lavendran before the judicial magistrate, who remanded him in judicial custody.
Later, he was lodged in the Coimbatore Central Prison.