Woman, youth murdered in separate incidents
The HinduA 31-year-old woman was allegedly murdered by her husband in a family dispute in Salem on Saturday. A. Kavitha, a resident of Kaveripuram near Kolathur in Salem district, was living at her brother’s house in Coimbatore with her son for the past four months after a quarrel with her husband Arunachalam. That afternoon, she was out walking near Sivasakthi Nagar in Kolathur when Arunachalam allegedly waylaid and hacked her with a sickle, killing her on the spot. Kolathur police sent the body to Mettur Government Hospital for a postmortem, after which they registered a case and arrested the accused In Namakkal, K. Sakthivel, a resident of MGR Colony near Sellappampalayam, was drinking along with his 17-year-old nephew when the two, in an inebriated state, began quarrelling.