The police have registered a case against a man, known for performing occult practices, on the charge of attempting to murder his wife by slitting her throat at Pothabailu village of Madanapalle division in Annamayya district on November 9 (Thursday) night.
According to information, the accused, identified as Dhananjaya (38) took his wife to a Jagananna Housing site nearby on the pretext of arranging construction material. He was said to have picked up an argument with her, before allegedly slitting her throat.
Hearing the shrieks of the woman, the people working nearby rushed to her rescue and shifted her to the Government Hospital at Madanapalle. Even as some youth tried to catch hold of Dhananjaya, he managed to flee under cover of darkness. With her condition worsening, the woman was shifted to SVRR Hospital in Tirupati in the early hours of Novmeber 10 (Friday).