Chennai: A woman was stabbed several times by her husband outside a court in Perambalur district ahead of the hearing of their divorce case.
Following the incident, the husband was arrested on a charge of attempt to murder, and the woman was shifted to the government hospital for treatment.
Police said the couple, Sudha and Kamaraj, coincidentally travelled in the same bus. Soon after they alighted at the court bus stop, the man took his hidden knife out and stabbed her multiple times, said S Mani, Superintendent of Police, Perambalur.
Mani continued that they have charged him with attempted murder.
Police said the couple had been fighting their divorce case over several years and it was in its final stages.
The woman is currently undergoing treatment.