Hyderabad Woman Tries To Kill Mother-In-Law With Kitchen Knife, Arrested

A long-running family property dispute turned violent in Hyderabad's Secunderabad after a 33-year-old woman allegedly attempted to murder her mother-in-law by attacking her with a kitchen knife inside their house in Chilkalguda.The accused, D Vijayalakshmi, 33, was arrested by Chilkalguda Police within 24 hours of the incident and has been remanded to judicial custody.According to the police, the incident occurred around 9 am on July 21 at Erukala Basti, Chilkalguda, when the victim, Devarai Padmavathi, 57, was alone on the first floor of her residence.Investigators alleged that Vijayalakshmi entered the house armed with a sharp vegetable-cutting knife, grabbed her mother-in-law by the hair, dragged her inside and repeatedly attacked her with the intention of killing her.The victim sustained serious injuries to her neck and fingers during the assault. Her cries for help alerted neighbours, who rushed to the house, intervened and rescued her.