Chennai: A 24-year-old woman allegedly killed her husband while he was sleeping by smashing a grinding stone on his face at their residence in Avadi on Saturday.
The woman was irate over her husband's alcoholism and the sexual abuse which followed that, police said.
The deceased, S. Rajkumar (30) is an auto driver. He lived with his wife, S. Yuvarani and their two-year-old son at Vallivelan Nagar near Avadi.
On Saturday morning, Yuvarani walked into the MKB Nagar police station and informed the personnel there that she had murdered her husband.
The Avadi Tank factory police were alerted and a team secured the man's body from the house and moved it to the Kilpauk Medical college hospital for autopsy.
Preliminary investigations revealed that Yuvarani murdered her husband during the early hours of Saturday.
The couple had fought the previous night after the man forced himself on her turning home drunk. Police sources said the man had been doing this for the past one-year and the couple used to get into frequent fights over the same.
Avadi Tank Factory police arrested the woman. She was produced before a court and remanded to judicial custody.
