Woman kills husband to seize Rs 8 crore assets, travels 840 km to burn body, held with 2 accomplices in Karnataka

After the assemblage was discovered, 4 peculiar teams of 16 officers pursued leads. Investigators reviewed CCTV footage from hundreds of cameras, tracking vehicles that had moved done the country astir the clip of the crime. Located lone 1 km from the highway, the transgression country prompted the constabulary to sift done information from thousands of vehicles successful Madikeri, Suntikoppa, Kushalnagar, and Madhapur to constrictive down imaginable suspects.

Eventually, investigators identified a reddish Benz registered successful the sanction of Ramesh, who had precocious gone missing. The Kodagu constabulary past liaised with their Telangana counterparts to stitchery inheritance accusation connected Ramesh and his idiosyncratic relationships. As inquiries progressed, suspicion focused connected Niharika, her subordinate Dr Nikhil, a veterinarian, and a friend, Ankur Rana. When Niharika was taken into custody, she confessed to the crime, the constabulary said.

Niharika, 29, is from Mongeer Nagar successful Telangana. When she was 16, her begetter passed away, and her parent remarried. Niharika joined astatine a young property and became a mother, but she aboriginal divorced owed to marital issues. She was known for her world achievements, having graduated successful engineering and worked astatine respective companies, wherever she earned a important salary, the constabulary said.

However, her beingness took a acheronian crook portion she was successful Haryana, wherever she became progressive successful a fiscal scam that led to her arrest. Upon release, she returned to Bangalore and joined Ramesh successful 2018. Ramesh financed her lavish lifestyle, but disputes arose, particularly aft helium refused her request for Rs 8 crore.

Driven by resentment, Niharika, with Ankur’s help, devised a program to execution Ramesh, the constabulary said. She allegedly lured him to Uppal, Hyderabad, connected October 1, wherever helium was strangled to death. Niharika and her accomplices allegedly transported the assemblage to Kodagu, astir 840 km away. They near it successful a java plantation, covered with a blanket, and acceptable it ablaze successful an effort to destruct evidence, said the police.

Maintaining a calm facade, Niharika adjacent filed a missing idiosyncratic study for Ramesh, said the police. As the probe unfolded, authorities were besides exploring Ankur’s imaginable engagement successful different crimes, including his wife’s suspicious disappearance, hinting that this high-profile lawsuit could beryllium portion of a broader transgression pattern.