Hyderabad: The Meerpet police has formed special teams to trace the parts of the body of Madhavi, a woman who was allegedly killed by her husband – a former Army jawan at their residence – and was chopped into pieces.
On January 15, Gurumurthy, the ex-army jawan, who now works as security guard, had killed his wife and afterwards he informed his in-laws that Madhavi went missing from the house. The incident came to light after Madhavi’s parents filed a missing person complaint at the Meerpet police station on January 18.
The police started investigation on suspicion took into custody Gurumurthy, who spilled the beans during interrogation and allegedly admitted to killing his wife brutally at their house. Sources said Gurumurthy had allegedly dismembered Madhavi’s body in their bathroom. He then used a pressure cooker to reportedly boil the remains and a pestle to grind the bones.
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Over the course of three days, he is said to have packed the remains in a bag and dumped them in a nearby lake. Special teams have deployed clue teams and a dog squad to search for the victim’s remains in the lake at Meerpet.
The police sought help of the SDRF and fire department men. Gurumurthy and Madhavi, married for 13 years, lived in Hyderabad’s Jillelaguda with their two children. At the time of the alleged crime, the children were visiting Gurumurthy’s sister.
Gurumurthy who took voluntary retirement from the army, has been working as a security guard on an outsourcing basis at the DRDO in Kanchanbagh.
Following the incident, Gurumurthy reportedly fabricated a story about Madhavi’s disappearance to mislead her family.
