Woman, relative torch her husband alive in car in Tiruppur

Victim was a powerloom owner who could not walk due to an injury

The Tiruppur District Police on Friday arrested a woman and her relative on charges of burning her husband alive inside a car near Perumanallur. According to police, Rangaraj (62), a powerloom owner from Perundurai in Erode district, was discharged from a private hospital in Coimbatore on Thursday. He suffered an accident on March 15 and was unable to walk. His wife Jothimani (55) and relative Raja (41) put him in the car and the three headed for Perundurai on Thursday evening. Raja, who drove the vehicle, stopped it at Valasupalayam near Perumanallur around 11 p.m. He and Jothimani got out of the car, poured petrol on it and set it ablaze, burning Rangaraj alive inside the car.