TN Youth Hacks Girlfriend, Her Mother

 TN Youth Hacks Girlfriend, Her Mother

TRICHY: A 19-year-old man involved in two murder cases attempted to murder his 16-year-old girlfriend and her mother in a village in Trichy district of Tamil Nadu on Tuesday after the girl’s family refused to marry her off to him.

They were admitted to Perambalur Government Hospital where both are out of danger.

Police said the accused consumed poison and was admitted to Mahatma Gandhi memorial government hospital (MGMGH).  

The Siruganur police said K Shanmugam of Kallur near Musiri and the girl were in love with each other when they were in school in Padalur. However, the girl left Shanmugam on the advice of her family.

On Tuesday morning, he barged into the girl’s house and asked her mother to marry her off to him. As she refused to do so, an argument followed. Shanmugam abused them verbally before attacking both with a machete.

The woman, 38, and her daughter suffered severe injuries on their heads. The girl sustained injuries on her right thumb too.

Acting on a complaint from the girl’s mother, police registered an attempt to murder case against Shanmugam and also charged him with trespassing and verbally abusing the women.

Police said he would be arrested after his discharge. Shanmugam was accused in two murder cases as a juvenile and was out on bail recently, police said.