CUDDALORE: A 27-year-old woman murdered her three daughters by throwing them into a drain near Sethiathope in Cuddalore district of Tamil Nadu after a feud with her husband.

The woman surrendered before the Sethiathope police on Thursday morning and confessed to having murdered her three daughters.

The police alerted fire and rescue services personnel, who reached the spot and recovered the bodies of the three children with the help of local people. The bodies were sent for postmortem.

Inquiries revealed that M Sathiavathy, 27, had married S Manikandan, 33, a borewell worker, seven years ago and settled near Sethiathope. The couple begot three daughters – Akshaya, 6, Nanthini, 4 and Dharshini 2. Akshaya and Nanthini were students at a private school near Vridhachalam.

Manikandan used to quarrel with his wife every day after consuming liquor. After one such quarrel, the woman left her husband’s home on September 24 with her three daughters and reached her mother’s home. Her mother convinced her to return to her husband’s and made Sathiavathy and her children board a bus on Wednesday morning.

However, instead of returning to her husband’s house, the woman got down at Sethiathope junction with her children and spent time straying in the locality until evening.

On Wednesday night, the woman threw her children into a drain and fled the scene. On Thursday morning, she surrendered before the police.

The police registered murder case and arrested her.

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