‘Boiled body parts, crushed bones’: police arrest ‘remorseless’ husband for Hyderabad woman’s murder after verifying his claims

“This is simply a rarest-of-the-rare lawsuit wherever the accused has nary remorse oregon guilt. He is afloat mentally acceptable but evil. The mode helium has behaved shows his nefarious designs and sinister mindset,” Sudheer Babu told the media connected Tuesday.

According to the Commissioner, Madhavi, a homemaker, was killed by Gurumurthy connected the greeting of January 16. He allegedly smashed her caput against the partition and past strangled her to death. He past chopped the assemblage into pieces, boiled the assemblage parts, crushed the bones, said the police. He allegedly disposed of the bony pulverization and smaller pieces successful the toilet portion dumping the remnants successful the neighbourhood lake.

The victim, Putta Venkata Madhavi, 39, was a homemaker. (Express Image)

“All this took him 4 to six hours and aft cleaning the house, helium brought his children backmost soon aft arsenic if thing had happened. He misled the children astir the odor of phenyl and told them their parent had gone away,” the Commissioner told indianexpress.com, adding that “it was a intelligibly pre-meditated and planned brutal transgression and not a spur-of the-moment crime”.

The police, who had earlier said they could not simply spell by the accused’s claims, reconstructed the transgression and series of events, collected forensic grounds specified arsenic tegument tissues, hairsbreadth and ash remnants, and method evidence, including CCTV visuals and cellphone locations. They besides seized the materials utilized successful the crime, including a knife, stove, h2o heater, clothes, phenyl and acerb bottles, country freshener, arsenic good arsenic 2 mobile phones.

According to the police, the accused sent their children to his sister’s home, and killed his woman owed to a idiosyncratic quarrel. The woman wanted to reunite with her household for Sankranthi, and the accused, who had disputes with his in-laws for 5 years, was against this.

Gurumurthy served successful the service betwixt 2003 and 2020 and retired arsenic a naib subedar. He has been moving arsenic a information defender with a Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) installation successful Hyderabad’s Kanchanbagh.

After committing the crime, helium allegedly confessed to sidesplitting his woman to 1 of his relatives. The constabulary discovered this accusation during their probe into Madhavi’s disappearance. Gurumurthy attempted to mislead the constabulary by claiming that his woman had near location pursuing a quarrel betwixt them, said the police.

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