MALAYINKEEZHU: The police arrested a 31-year-old woman who eloped with her lover after abandoning her husband and minor children. The two have been held. Lekshmi (31) staying in a rented house in Vilavoorkal and M Manoj (36) of Manju Bhavan at Ezhacode in Vilavoorkal are the two arrested. She along with her younger child eloped with her lover after abandoning her other children with her mother-in-law.

Manoj is married and has a child. He got divorced recently. She told the police who took the two into custody on the complaint of Lekshmi’s husband, that she wants to go with her lover.

A case has been registered against Lekshmi for eloping after abandoning her minor children and her lover on charges of aiding the crime. The two were produced in the court and remanded.