CHENNAI: A day after a 30-year-old

, a relative, in an argument over a tree, police arrested him on Friday. The accused had picked a fight over the tree disturbing his television antenna on previous occasions, police said.

Police said Senthil Kumar, 30, and his wife Kalaivani, 28, were residents of Vellavedu in Tiruvallur. Kumar's relative Raman lived next door but the families often quarrelled with each other. "Raman often complained that the tree disrupted signals to his television and wanted it to be chopped but Kumar did not do it," police said.

On Thursday evening, The television cable running near the tree snapped, following which Raman barged into Senthil's house and picked a fight with Kalaivani, who was alone. Raman then stabbed her with a kitchen knife and fled. She was declared dead on arrival by doctors at the Stanley medical college and hospital.