A college lecturer has been arrested on the charge of attempting to set afire his wife in nearby Pollachi over domestic quarrel, police said today.
After a quarrel, the man doused his wife with kerosene and attempted to light a match stick when she managed to run to safety last night, they said.
The couple used to pick up quarrels frequently in the last few months. The woman had left the home and was staying with her parents and had returned only last night after intervention by family elders.
Based on a complaint from the woman, the lecturer had been arrested, police added.
