In a bizarre incident, a man from Langarhouz in the Old City on Monday slit the throat of his wife on the premises of the Rajendranagar court on the city outskirts and fled.
The shocked onlookers immediately rushed the woman to the nearest hospital, and her condition is stated to be critical.
According to information received, the culprit Nagender Babu and his wife Sowjanya had applied for divorce in the Rajendranagar court. The couple have been married for ten years and have a seven-year-old son. Alleging that Nagender Babu was having an affair with another woman and had totally neglected her, Sowjanya filed a divorce case in the court and sought maintenance allowance from him for her and her son.
In this connection, the couple had attended the court on Monday. After a hearing and adjournment of the case, the estranged couple came out of the court hall. While walking out of the court premises, Nagender Babu suddenly whipped out a blade and slit Sowjanya's throat and fled in full view of the onlookers and litigants.