AP: Man kills wife, goes to police station, then takes poison

VIJAYAWADA: A man identified as Veerendra hacked his wife to death suspecting her fidelity, in Repalle,

Guntur district

, on Saturday. Veerendra then went to the

police

station, confessed to his crime and swallowed

poison

, which he had brought with him.


The police quickly sent him and a couple of police personnel to the Tenali hospital and went to the crime scene with his team.

On reaching the crime spot, inspector S Sambasivarao said that he saw Upputuri Soujanya (30) lying in a pool of blood. She was attacked late in the night with a sickle while she was asleep and perhaps could not defend herself, he said. Her two children, Bhavya Sri (6) and Jyosnika (4) were found asleep next to her, unharmed. The body was sent for post-mortem.

Bapatla DSP, A Srinivasa Rao, visited the crime scene and took stock of the investigation. He said Veerendra, who is a teacher, suspected that his wife was having an extra-marital affair and killed her.

A case under section 302 of IPC has been booked against him and his condition is said to be stable now.

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