Drunkard held for killing wife in Ezhil Nagar

CHENNAI: A 30-year-old man was arrested on charges of murdering his wife and claiming she committed suicide at Kannagi Nagar on Sunday.
Bhaarath, 30, of Ezhil Nagar in Kannagi Nagar, is a painter while his wife Monisha, 24, was a domestic help.
He picked up a fight with his wife whenever he came home drunk. On May 20, during such a fight, he strangled her.He then took her to Government Royapettah Hospital claiming she committed suicide. Though, police intially registered a case of suicide, postmortem confirmed it to be a case of murder.
Based on a complaint from his mother-in-law, police arrested Bhaarath. The couple have a six-year-old son.