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An Australian Indian woman accused of setting her husband's penis on fire will answer a murder charge in March.
Rajini Narayan, 44, appeared briefly in the Adelaide Magistrates Court this week charged with murder, arson and endangering life, according to news.com.
Narayan is yet to plead.
The case has been adjourned until March 12 as lawyers involved in the case asked the court to delay the case to allow further negotiations.
The mother of three allegedly set fire to the genitals of her engineer husband, Satish Narayan, in December 2008, as he lay asleep, upon learning that he was having an affair.
Narayan suffered major burns and died several weeks later.
The fire gutted the family's townhouse leaving a damage bill of about $1 million to their home and adjacent property.
Last year, the court heard she had told neighbours: “My husband loves another woman, he hugs her.
“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.
“It's just his penis I wanted to burn, I didn't mean this to happen.”
It is alleged that in December 2008, she poured methylated spirits over her husband's genitals before setting him alight.
Satish Narayan, 47, then knocked over the bottle of spirits when he jumped out of bed, sparking a huge blaze in which he suffered major burns and later died in hospital.
Prosecutor Karen Ingleton said defence lawyers had provided her with a new set of documents relating to the case.
“They may form the basis of a plea of guilty,” she said. “However I've not seen them, read them or considered them yet.”
Magistrate Maria Panagiotidis remanded Narayan on continuing bail until then.
Last year prosecutors had opposed bail, saying she posed “a substantial risk to others given her flagrant offending”.
She was said to have made references to using a police officer's gun on herself, and whether she should be alive at all.
