A bus conductor was arrested by police in Tamil Nadu's Cuddalore district on the charges of attempting to murder a 25 year-old married woman by dousing her body with petrol and setting her ablaze after she refused his proposal.
The victim, mother of two girls, has been working in a private firm after completing her nursing degree at Valadur, police said.
The husband of the victim is an Army jawan who is currently posted in West Bengal.?
The woman used to commute to her office in a private bus every day.?The conductor, identified as R Sundaramoorthy, befriended her and the two used to chat regularly during the journey. Police said when the conductor confessed?his love to the victim, she stopped?talking to him three months ago.
After failing to woo the woman, he decided to take revenge on her.?Sundaramoorthy came to her office on Friday with a bottle of petrol. He invited her for a brief chat and when the woman came out, he doused her with petrol and set her ablaze.
The woman suffered burns on the head, left upper limb and left thigh. When she screamed for help, her colleagues and passersby caught the man and handed him over to the Vadalur police.?
Police have registered a case against him under Section 294 B (obscene acts and songs), 354 (T) (assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty) and 307 (attempt to murder) of the Indian penal code and arrested him.
The women was later referred to the goverment hospital in?Cuddalore where doctors said she had sustained 20%? burn injuries.