Even as the horrific 2023 Mira Road murder case remains fresh in our minds, a similar case has come to light from Telangana’s Hyderabad.
A former Army personnel, currently employed as a security guard in a defence establishment, claimed that he killed his 35-year-old wife, dismembered her and boiled the body parts in a pressure cooker before disposing of them in a lake.
He has been taken into custody, and the investigation is still ongoing as of Thursday morning.
Here’s all we know about the murder case.
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Gurumurthy, a 45-year-old retired Army jawan residing in Dandupalli village in Toofanpeta, allegedly killed his wife, Puttavenkata Madhavi, on January 15.
Madhavi’s parents, after inquiring about her whereabouts with her husband, lodged a missing complaint at Meerpet police station on January 18.
Gurumurthy had initially claimed Madhavi left home in a huff following an argument with him over visiting her native place, Nandyal in Andhra Pradesh, for the Sankranti festival.
As per media reports, he even accompanied his in-laws to the police station to lodge the complaint and also supported the police in searching for her.
As the search intensified, the police grew suspicious of the husband. This was especially after they learnt that the couple had frequent arguments.
It was only after being detained for questioning that Gurumurthy allegedly confessed to the murder in a fit of rage.
Before his arrest, Meerpet SHO K Nagaraju said police were probing it as a “missing person case” since no evidence had been found of the suspected murder.
Gurumurthy and Madhavi were married for over 13 years and lived in a rented house in Hyderabad’s Jillelaguda.
The man had taken voluntary retirement from the army and was working as a security guard on an outsourcing basis at the DRDO in Kanchanbagh, as per Telangana Today.
The couple’s two children were visiting the suspect’s sister on the day of the alleged crime.
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To hide the crime and avoid being caught, Gurumurthy chopped Madhavi’s body in their bathroom, boiled her body parts in a cooker, then separated the bones, ground them using a pestle, and boiled them again, according to The Times of India which quoted police sources.
He cooked the flesh and bones for three days before packing them in a bag and dumping them all in a nearby lake.
The police have not yet found any body parts of the victim and have deployed clue teams and a dog squad for a more extensive search.
“We are verifying his claims, and as of now, we have not found any body parts. The investigation is progressing,” Praveen Kumar, Deputy Commissioner of Police, LB Nagar told The Indian Express.
Notably, the case comes just a few days after a 21-year-old man was arrested on Monday by Kushaiguda police of the Rachakonda commissionerate for killing his wife, who was seven months pregnant.
A Sachin Satyanarayana strangled T Sneha, 21, to death. The murder was so brutal that the force applied caused the foetus to be expelled from her womb, also killing the unborn child on the spot, according to the police.
The man reportedly tried to portray the murder as a fire accident by opening the valves of the gas stove and lighting them. However, the fire did not spread, and he fled the scene.
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The latest case brings to mind the
gruesome murder of Saraswati Vaidya, who was in a live-in relationship in Mumbai’s Mira Road.
Saraswati Vaidya, 36, was killed in June 2023 by her live-in partner, with whom she was in a relationship for over nine years.
Manoj Sane, then 56, used a tree cutter to dismember her body into 20 pieces in the bathroom.
To ensure there was no foul smell, he even pressure-cooked some body parts, roasted others, ground some in a mixer, and fed them to stray dogs.
Initially, Sane claimed that Vaidya died by suicide on June 4. However, fearing he might be charged with abetment, he tried to get rid of the body instead of alerting authorities.
Later, it was learnt that the couple had a fight as Sane suspected her of infidelity, following which he stabbed her with a knife.
The case was similar to the
Shraddha Walker murder case that shook the country in May 2022.
Walker was killed by her live-in partner
Aftab Poonawala in Delhi, who also chopped her body into at least 35 pieces and stored them in a refrigerator for around three months before dumping the parts one by one across the National Capital.
The case came to light six months after the killing when Walker’s father filed a missing person complaint.
With inputs from agencies
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Chopped, boiled, thrown in lake: The brutal murder of wife by ex-Army man in Hyderabad
