mysuru a 43yearold woman was arrested on wednesday after she poured petrol and set her husband on fire for allegedly having an affair mazhar pasha 47 was rushed to a hospital on monday evening he succumbed to burns on wednesday evening police saidaccording to udayagiri police pasha a resident of satyanagar in mysuru is a scrap dealer he married mamtaj 25 years ago the couple has six children upset over his alleged affair mamtaj poured petrol on pasha after a verbal duel on monday evening in her statement mamtaj told police that her husband was having an affair and he was getting ready for a second marriage despite her opposition though the two were married for 25 years their relationship began to turn sour after mamtaj got to know about her husbands affair locals and community leaders had counselled the couple pasha often threatened his wife and children that he would desert them and marry again on monday mamtaj set her husband on fire after a heated discussion police saidmamtaj was arrested after pashas relatives lodged a complaint on tuesday we will hand over his body to the family after conducting a postmortem initially we had registered a case under section 307 attempt to murder of ipc against mamtaj now we will register a murder case against her police added