Charred body of missing man found in Medak

After initial examination, police found that Mallesham was killed before being set on fire.

Sangareddy: The discovery of the charred body of a man, who was allegedly abducted on Friday, has turned out to be a planned murder, with his wife and her paramour being the prime accused. The two, along with three others, were arrested on Saturday.

According to the police, the victim Pappannapet Mallesham (30), a resident of Andole-Jogipet Municipality, was living with his wife Kalpana (26), two children and parents. Mallesham used to run a laundry for a living. Kalpana, who hails from Masanampally village, allegedly had an extramarital affair with a man, Machkuri Mahesh (32) from her village. Though she married Mallesham in 2015 and had two children, she was continuing the relationship, police said, adding that Mallesham came to know about this and asked Kalpana to mend her ways.

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Following this, Mahesh and Kalpana decided to eliminate him. Mahesh roped in Talari Mahesh (30) and Vajjeri Mahesh (30) with the help of his relative Vusike Ambaji (29) and agreed to pay Rs.50,000 for the job. On Friday morning, when Mallesham was going to the laundry shop from his house on his two-wheeler, Kalpana alerted Mahesh and his team, who were waiting near the house. The trio waylaid Mallesham and hit him with a rock. When he fell unconscious, they shifted him into a hired car, strangulated him to death in the moving car and carried the body in the car’s rear compartment till evening. Later, they had proceeded towards Ramayampet and dumped the body near Konapur and set it on fire around 7.30 pm.

The police cracked the case within hours after the charred body was found. DSP Ramesh said the team reached the location by late night on Friday and nabbed Mahesh by midnight. All the five accused were produced before the court and remanded in judicial custody.