Woman makes brutal attack on pawn broker

She attacked him with a machete, threw acid on his eyes

A 29-year-old woman, U. Saranya, allegedly made a murderous attack on an aged pawn broker, M. Senthil Athiban, 69, with a machete and threw acid on his eyes after tying him up as he refused to give additional money for the jewels she had already pledged with him in Othakadai on Thursday afternoon. “Fortunately, his (pawn broker’s) daughter came there in search of her father and raised an alarm that helped save Senthil,” said Othakadai Inspector of Police P. Sekar. The police said that the woman from Pudupatti had pledged her jewels without the knowledge of her husband. Since she had some urgent requirement for money, she had come to the pawn broker. “It looks like the woman had planned to attack the aged man and had come prepared with machete, hammer and acid,” the Inspector said.