Salem: The police arrested a woman for murdering her husband by assaulting him with a stone, when he was under the influence of alcohol and abused her, on Tuesday. Police said Ayyanar, 68, a resident of Vedukathamman Kovil area, had abused his second wife Dhanalakshmi, 65. “He had quarreled with her demanding money to consume liquor.
Following a heated exchange of words, Ayyanar had tried to stab her with a crowbar, but Dhanalakshmi caught it with her hand and forced him down. She then picked up a brick and smashed his head with it,” police said. Ayyanar died on the spot. Investigations revealed that Ayyanar married Dhanalakshmi after his first wife Perumayi, 58, separated from him some 20 years ago.
As he did not have children out of his second marriage, Ayyanar married another woman, Anjalai and had four children including three girls. However Anjalai died four years ago due to electrocution.
Since then, the children were in the care of Dhanalakshmi who earned her livelihood by running a petty shop. Police said Ayyanar also stopped going to work as a daily wage labourer and harassed Dhanalakshmi demanding money to consume alcohol.
