A 37 year-old-lady, Fatima Sani, of Gobirawa village in Mashegu Local Government Area of Niger State has been arrested by the state police command for allegedly stabbing her mother-in-law to death.

The Commissioner of police in the state, Alhaji Adamu Usman, who disclosed this in Minna , yesterday, said that the suspect had a misunderstanding with her husband, Sani Umaru, on April 23 which resulted to divorce.

The suspect alleged that her mother in-law, Aishatu Umaru, 70 of Tozon Daji village instigated her son to divorce her.

It was based on this assumption that the suspect traced the mother-in-law to her village and stabbed her to death.

Usman said that the case is under investigation and the suspect would soon be charged to court.