An angry 44-year-old widow’s alleged attempt to attack her former lover with “acid” ahead of his wedding in Nandalur on Sunday ended in the cancellation of the marriage, a police official said.

At around 11 am, Jaya, a former software engineer from Tirupati who has a 22-year-old son, came to the wedding venue in Aravapalli village in Nandalur mandal to confront Sheikh Syed (32), who wanted to marry another woman without her knowledge.

According to police, the two were together for about 10 years, but for the last three years, Syed had migrated to Kuwait to work as a driver. He returned to India and planned to get married on Sunday.

“During the argument, Syed declared that he would not stay with Jaya and in a fit of rage, she tried to attack him with acid from a bathroom cleaner but he dodged. The acid fell on Syed’s aunt,” the police official told PTI.

Since it was a bathroom cleaning acid, Syed’s aunt suffered no serious injuries.

Meanwhile, the groom retaliated with a ceremonial knife used as decoration at weddings, inflicting minor injuries on Jaya, whose surname is unknown.

The police filed charges against both of them under the relevant paragraphs and arrested them.