- By Nidhi Giri
- Fri, 24 Jan 2025 12:32 PM (IST)
- Source:JND
Hyderabad Murder: Officials launched an intensive search operation after a former Army personnel, now working as a security guard, confessed to killing his 35-year-old wife, dismembering her body and boiling the remains in a pressure cooker before disposing them off at various locations. Searches were conducted in Jillelaguda lake where the man claimed to have dumped the pieces as well as the couple’s residence. However, no body part has been recovered by the police yet. The incident occurred in Meerpet, on the outskirts of Hyderabad, Telangana, on Wednesday, police said.
While the police were corroborating technical and scientific evidence, they were yet to find the body parts of the deceased, The Indian Express reported.
“We cannot go by mere claims. We are collecting all technical and scientific pieces of evidence. The case is under investigation,” Commissioner of Police G Sudheer Babu told the publication.
The victim's husband Gurumurthy, a retired Army jawan from Andhra Pradesh, claimed that he killed his wife, dismembered her body, boiled the parts and disposed of them in a lake at Jillelaguda on the city's outskirts. Ever since Gurumurthy's confession, the Hyderabad Police has corroborated forensic and technical evidence to establish his claims and find out what exactly happened to his wife P Venkata Madhavi.
Murthy, who served in the Army before retiring, is currently employed as a security guard on an outsourcing basis at DRDO in Kanchan Bagh. He and Madhavi had been married for 13 years and have two children.
Officials stated that the investigation is ongoing and further details will be disclosed after evidence is gathered. The police have recovered a pressure cooker, water heater, and knives.
Husband Confesses To Murdering Wife
After questioning Murthy, police said he admitted to killing his wife following an argument. He hit Madhavi against a wall and confessed to cutting the body into pieces, boiling the remains and dumping them in a lake in Jillelaguda.
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He then chopped off her body using kitchen knives and initially boiled the parts to destroy any sign of the murder. The accused claimed to have cooked her body parts in a pressure cooker for five to six hours and used a mortar and pestle to grind the bones.
The publication reported, quoting unnamed sources, that the flesh, along with powdered bones, was then thrown into different localities, including the nearby lake.
Madhavi, was reported missing on January 18 when her mother Subamma complained to the police.Meerpet inspector Nagaraju was cited by news agency ANI as saying that Madhavi had walked out of her house after an argument with Gurumurthy on January 16.