A 24-year-old woman lodged a complaint with the police of suspecting her relatives behind the death of her second husband in a road accident on Saturday night.
Following investigations, the police arrested the woman’s father identified as Alagar of Thumbaipatti under Kottampatti police station limits on Sunday.
Police said that Raghavi, 24, was married to Selvam of Pottapatti near here. The couple had two children. Three years ago Selvam died in a road accident.
After she lost her husband, Raghavi is said to have fallen in love with another man, whose name was given as Satishkumar, 22, of Pottapatti. They both lived together in Tiruchi.
It is said that Raghavi had come to her native home on Saturday and left with Satishkumar around 7 p.m. on a two-wheeler. As they were proceeding to Tiruchi, an unidentified car hit the two-wheeler near Kadampatti tank in which Satishkumar fell and suffered head injury. He was rushed to Melur Government Hospital, but succumbed to injuries, police said.
