Police yet to trace the victim's mortal remains
GUWAHATI: An ex-soldier in Hyderabad has claimed that he killed his wife, dismembered her body, cooked the body parts multiple times in a pressure cooker and used a pestle to crush them before packing these up in a bag and dumping them in a lake.
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Gurumurthy, a retired Army jawan, revealed the gory details to the police, during interrogation in connection with a complaint of his wife, Puttavenkata Madhavi, going missing.
According to reports, the incident took place in Venkateswara Colony under Meerpet Police Station limits in the Rangareddy district.
Madhavi was reported missing on January 18 when her mother Subamma lodged a complaint with the police. Madhavi had allegedly walked out of her house after some argument with Gurumurthy on January 16, the reports cited Meerpet Inspector Nagaraju as saying.
While investigating the case, police took the suspect, currently working as a security guard in Kanchanbagh, into custody. He allegedly confessed to have killed his wife in a fit of rage after a heated argument.
Gurumurthy said that after having murdered his wife, he went about removing evidence. In the process, he allegedly chopped her body in the bathroom, then boiled the parts in a pressure cooker.
He separated the bones from the flesh, crushed them using a pestle and again boiled them, a report cited police sources as saying.
He reportedly cooked the flesh and bones for three days, after which he packed them in a bag and dumped it in a nearby lake.
As of late Wednesday, January 22 police were, however, yet to trace the victim's mortal remains in the lake into which Gurumurthy claimed to have disposed the body parts. Despite the husband’s confession, police are continuing to treat it as a missing case since body parts have not been recovered or any other evidence found.
Madhavi and Gurumurthy had gotten married thirteen years ago and had been living in Venkateswara Colony with their two children for the last five years. On the day of the alleged murder, the couple's children were reportedly visiting the suspect's sister.