A 62-year-old man has been arrested for stabbing his wife to death after a quarrel in Kannagi Nagar police station area.
After the murder, M. Arumugam surrendered at the police station on Friday evening. The body of 54-year-old victim Kasturi has been sent to Government Royapettah Hospital for post-mortem.
Arumugam, a resident of the tenement of Kannagi Nagar, used to sell porridge for a living. He and his wife often quarreled. Enraged on Friday evening, he allegedly hit her with a stick and stabbed her to death. He was sent to judicial custody.
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