Farmer & lover kill spouses, stage murders as suicide, road accident

HYDERABAD: A farmer and his lover were arrested for killing their spouses and staging their murders as a suicide and road accident death.

On October 9, Sheik Rafi, 30-year-old worker from Suryapet, was found hanging to the ceiling fan in his house. "The main door was latched from inside and Rafi's wife Nasreen was in the bedroom with the door of the room latched from outside. It appeared as if Rafi locked his wife in the room and hanged himself in the hall," Suryapet district SP Rahul Hegde said.

The postmortem report indicated that there were some injuries on the body and the call data analysis of Rafi's wife showed that she was talking to B Venkanna, 35, a farmer from Kudukuda, on phone at the time of her husband's death.

"Venkanna confessed that he has been in love with Nasreen and they strangled Rafi with the help of friends, Srisailam and Madhu, on October 9 night and tried to project it as a suicide," the SP said.

Police arrested Madhu and Srisailam from their homes on Thursday night. Nasreen was arrested on Friday. Venkanna confessed to killing his wife Ramadevi on July 8 at an isolated place near Chandupatla in Suryapet and staged it as a road accident death.