'PENIS-BURNING WIFE'

Everyone needs a strategy that protects and promotes their best interests and then hope for some divine favour. We secure what belongs to us, especially valuables, in different ways.

Some do so by insuring their lives and properties. Others engage in daily and vigorous prayers and supplication to the heavenly hosts to protect them and their family. Some even engage the services of bodyguards, guard dogs, vigilante services and all forms of household security devices.

A jealous wife in South Australia has however upped the ante.   What better way to secure what belongs to you than to burn it? Just think about it for a minute. No other person can then get access to it!

It is so brilliant and simple that as with all brilliant ideas, it just hadn’t occurred to anyone else! I feel like slapping myself that such pearl of wisdom had not crossed my radical mind.

The jealous wife, Rajini Narayan, 44 – and a beautiful woman from her photograph – set her husband’s treasured penis on fire so it belongs to her and no one else! Ingenious thinking!

But the law is an ass as they say, and poor Rajini has been charged to a magistrate court.

The mother of three who set fire to the genitals of her husband, Satish Narayan, in December 2008 appeared in court in October to answer a murder charge in an Adelaide Magistrate Court.

Mr. Narayan unfortunately suffered major burns in the blaze and died several weeks after the fire which also gutted the family’s suburban Unley home leaving extensive damage of about $1 million.

In a previous court hearing in January, she had explained her actions: "I'm a jealous wife, his penis should belong to me, I just wanted to burn his penis so it belongs to me and no one else ... I didn't mean this to happen. My husband loves another woman, he hugs her," she allegedly said.

The case was originally adjourned until October 30, when she was to answer charges of murder, arson and endangering life. Endangering life my foot! She was only protecting her interest!

Unfortunately the plan went awry. All she probably wanted to do was burn some of the lecherous pubic hairs of her lecherous husband as a warning not to hug other women.

Rajini Narayan dabbed at her eyes with a handkerchief and choked back tears during a brief appearance in the Adelaide Magistrates Court at the resumed hearing.

She pleaded not guilty to murdering her husband, Satish, by fatally setting him alight in their home.

She also denied endangering the lives of the couple's three children - who were in the home at the time - and pleaded not guilty to one count of arson.

Last year, the court heard allegations that Narayan had confessed to the attack.
"It's just his penis I wanted to burn, I didn't mean this to happen."

The case's progression to the Supreme Court has been delayed by adjournment several times.
In January, prosecutors said talks with defence counsel "may form the basis of a guilty plea."

The magistrate remanded Narayan on continuing bail to face the Supreme Court next month.