Chennai: A 38-year-old woman was killed by her husband after he threatened to file a police complaint against him for harassing him on Saturday night.
The police said that the woman was Anandhi, wife of Ravikumar Payyanur near Mamallapuram.
The couple has two teenagers.
The police said that Ravi Kumar, was a tailor.
He also uses a rude job and spends monthly wages by drinking liquor.
Because the family faces a financial crisis during the next lock, the woman opposes her drinking habits that often cause fighting.
The neighbors often come to calm the couple because he will beat him using a knife and log.
He also tried to kill him on previous occasions.
Anandhi continued to warn him to refrain from harassing it and threatened to file a complaint at the Women’s Office.
On Saturday night, Ravi came home drunk again and beat his wife.
Anandhi warned him that he would go to the police station on Sunday, and go to sleep.
Ravi Kumar, who woke up in the middle of the night, hit his wife with a halter on his head, leaving him dead.
Children, who see their bleeding, tells the neighbors.
In the morning, the man did a drama claiming that he had taken pesticides and ended his life.
However, the neighbors submitted a complaint at the Mamallapuram police station, when the man escaped from home.
The police who rushed to the scene sent the body to post-Mortem to the Chengalpattu government hospital and arrested Ravi Kumar.
He told the police that he was worried he would file a police complaint and decided to kill him.
He was ordered on charges of murder and returned in court detention.
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