Coimbatore: A 32-year-old man brutally hacked his estranged wife at a women’s hostel and posted his selfie with her body as WhatsApp status, police said on Monday.
The incident left the inmates of the private women’s hostel shocked, and it also triggered a political outrage with the opposition parties raising questions on women’s safety.
The 28-year-old woman, police said, was working at a private firm in Coimbatore, and was living in a private women’s hostel following separation from her husband. She hailed from Tharuvai near Melapalayam in the southern district of Tirunelveli.
Her husband, S Balamurugan, went to her hostel on Sunday afternoon under the pretext of meeting her and later hacked her to death with a sickle following a heated exchange of words, police said.
He later took a selfie of himself with her corpse and uploaded it as his WhatsApp status, claiming she betrayed him, the official said.
Due to a dispute with him, the woman left their two children under the care of her mother in Coimbatore and moved into a hostel.
The Rathinapuri police have registered a case and are investigating.
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