CHENNAI: A woman hammered her husband to death to prevent him from sexually assaulting their 20-year-old daughter at Otteri in Chennai city. Carrying the bloodstained hammer, the woman surrendered before the Otteri police station in the wee hours of Friday.
The Otteri police registered a case under Section 302 (murder) of IPC and detained the woman for questioning. Police let her off after further investigation. “The investigation officers preferred not to arrest the woman as she killed her husband to rescue her daughter,” said Pulianthope deputy commissioner of police I Eswaran.