Extra-marital affair behind Hyderabad’s Meerpet murder?

Guru Murthy allegedly chops his wife's body into small parts using two knives and then boils in a bucket full of water with electric immersible heater. Later, he put the chunks into pressure cooker and boils them

Hyderabad: Chilling details have emerged in the brutal murder of Venkata Madhavi, a house wife, by her ex-serviceman-husband Guru Murthy in Meerpet. Investigators suspect an argument between the couple over the Murthy’s alleged extra-marital affair led to the murder.

The suspect reportedly took his wife and two children to watch a movie on January 14 and then went to Madhavi’s parents place to celebrate Sankranti. Leaving their children there, the couple returned home when an argument is suspected to have taken place between them.

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The police investigating the case suspect that during the argument Madhavi pulled out her ‘mangalsutra’ and threw it on Guru Murthy’s face following which the latter pushed her against the wall, resulting in grievous injuries and death.

To destroy evidence, the suspect allegedly chopped her body into small parts using two knives and then boiled in a bucket full of water with electric immersible heater. Later, he is suspected to have put the chunks into pressure cooker and boiled them. Murthy, it is allegedly put the body pieces into two bags and disposed them in an open drainage and lake.

Though the suspect tried to mislead the investigation, the police who examined surveillance cameras in the colony found that Madhavi had not come out of the house as claimed by him on that day. The investigators then zeroed upon Guru Murthy who spilled the beans.

Meanwhile, Madhavi’s family alleged that Murthy had been harassing her for money and her ancestral property despite taking dowry worth nearly Rs 15 lakh.