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The constabulary connected Sunday (November 30, 2025) arrested a antheral hailing from Tirunelveli, who hacked his woman to decease astatine a women’s hostel successful Coimbatore and posted a selfie with her corpse arsenic his WhatsApp status.
S. Balamurugan, 32, from Tharuvai successful Tirunelveli district, was arrested for murdering his woman B. Sreepriya, 30, besides from the aforesaid district.
The constabulary said the mates has 2 sons and a daughter. Sreepriya was surviving separated from Balamurugan owed to alleged differences of opinion, arsenic per preliminary findings by the police.
She was moving successful a backstage constitution successful Coimbatore and was residing astatine a women’s hostel successful Raju Naidu Layout adjacent 100 Feet Road, Gandhipuram.
According to the police, Sreepriya was adjacent to a comparative of Balamurugan. He came to cognize astir the alleged narration and decided to face his wife.
The constabulary said that Balamurugan came to the hostel, wherever Sreepriya stayed connected Sunday morning. He met his woman and demanded that she travel him to Tirunelveli. However, the pistillate declined, starring to a heated statement betwixt them connected the portico of the hostel.
Balamurugan took retired a machete that helium carried and hacked Sreepriya aggregate times. She died connected the spot.
The constabulary said that Balamurugan did not effort to fly the spot aft the execution but sat connected a seat adjacent his deceased wife. He took a selfie with the corpse and posted it arsenic his WhatsApp status.
The Rathinapuri constabulary rushed to the spot aft being alerted astir the execution and took Balamurugan into custody. The constabulary arrested him for murder. The assemblage of the deceased pistillate was shifted to the Coimbatore Medical College Hospital for post-mortem examination.
