A man in India is accused of the gruesome murder of his wife after police said he allegedly dismembered her body and boiled the parts in a pressure cooker.
Police also accused the suspect, identified only as Gurumurthy, 45, of disposing of his homemaker wife Putta Venkata Madhavi’s body parts in different locations.
“This is a rarest-of-the-rare case where the accused has no remorse or guilt. He is fully mentally fit but evil. The way he has behaved shows his (allegedly) nefarious designs and sinister mindset,” Rachakonda Police Commissioner G Sudheer Babu told media Tuesday, reported the Indian Express.
The accused, from Hyderabad, is a former army serviceman who was arrested after investigators gathered enough evidence to charge him following an earlier claim that he had allegedly dismembered his wife’s body.
According to police, Madhavi, 35, was reported missing on Jan. 16. The accused allegedly smashed his wife’s head against a wall and then strangled her to death. To get rid of her body, he allegedly cut the corpse into pieces and boiled them. He also allegedly crushed the bones and turn them into powder.
Cops said he allegedly flushed the powder and small body parts down the toilet and discarded the rest of the remains in a nearby lake.
Police said the accused had sent the couple’s two children to his sister’s home before he allegedly returned to kill his wife. It is alleged they were fighting over her desire to visit family for Sankranti, a harvest festival, which he was against. He apparently had disputes with his in-laws over the last five years.
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“All this took him four to six hours and after cleaning the house, he brought his children back soon after as if nothing had happened,” Babu said.
“He misled the children about the smell of phenyl and told them their mother had gone away,” before adding that “it was (allegedly) a clearly pre-meditated and planned brutal crime and not a spur-of the-moment crime.”
Police said he allegedly confessed to family members, but attempted to mislead investigators by claiming his wife had left the home following a dispute.
After serving in the army between 2003 and 2020, Gurumurthy was working as a security guard at a defence research and development organization facility.