The man, who was addicted to liquor, was reportedly harassing the girl for quite some time.

Sangareddy: In a shocking incident, a woman axed her husband to death, allegedly when he tried to rape their daughter at their residence at Sulthanpur village in Chowtakur mandal in the early hours of Thursday.

According to police, Manaiah (55), who was addicted to liquor, went home in an inebriated condition late on Wednesday night. When he began arguing with his wife Indira and their daughter, they locked him in a room. However, he broke the doors of the room with an axe and crowbar. He again tried to attack them and rape his daughter. Indira then managed to wrest the axe from his hands after a brawl and attacked him with the weapon. Manaiah died on the spot. The mother and daughter then called the Pulkal police and alerted them at 3 am. The police reached the house and shifted Manaiah’s body to the Sangareddy government hospital for postmortem.

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According to villagers, the daughter’s husband had died a few months ago. Since then, she, along with her child, was living with her parents. However, Manaiah used to have frequent quarrels with her even over petty issues. The villagers said Manaiah’s only son had died by suicide four years ago, reportedly unable to bear harassment from him. The family then got some money as compensation for handing over land for widening of the NH-161 a few years ago. Since then, Manaiah had kept the money in his account and was spending it on liquor. This had frequently led to arguments in the family.

Indira and her daughter are said to be in police custody. The police have registered a case. Investigation is on.