New wife murders husband over looks

Anewly married woman allegedly murdered her husband by smashing his head with a grinding stone, upset that he was not handsome, police said yesterday.

The 22-year-old woman, who got married about a week ago, attacked her husband fatally Monday night in their house here following a quarrel. Police said the woman started hating her husband, a wood sculptor in his mid 20s, because her friends and relatives said he was not handsome and not a match for her.

Though the woman came out and cried saying someone has murdered her husband, police after investigations arrested her yesterday on the charge of killing him.

She appeared before a local court which remanded her in judicial custody.