In a gruesome incident, a man allegedly hacked his wife to death today and walked to the police station at nearby Pollachi with the severed head, police said.
The accused, Chinnapparaj (49), was an agricultural labourer and he had frequent quarrels with his 40-year-old wife over her illicit relationship with a local man since the last few months, police said.
Despite her husband's warning, the woman continued her relationship.
Chinnapparaj found his wife missing from the house last night and surmising that she was with her paramour, waited with a sickle, chased and killed her as she was returning home about 8.30 AM today, police said.
He severed the head and walked with it for a distance of one-and-a-half km to Vadakkipalayam station in full view of panic-stricken people, and surrendered, police said.
