Nalgonda honour killing: Pranay's wife Amrutha gives birth to a baby boy

HYDERABAD: Almost four months after

Pranay Kumar

was brutally murdered by a hired killer in Hyderabad on September 14, 2018, his wife

Amrutha Varshini

gave birth to a baby boy at a Miryalguda hospital on Thursday.

Amrutha was admitted to the hospital by her in-laws on Thursday. Both, the baby and mother, are said to be healthy.

"Pranay loved me so much that he has come back to me," said Amrutha.

On September 14 last year, a contract killer attacked Pranay, just 23, outside a hospital where Amrutha, two years younger and pregnant after her marriage at an

Arya Samaj

mandir in Hyderabad in January, had come to consult a doctor. | Read this story in Telugu

The murder was planned by Amrutha's father, Maruthi Rao, who was furious with his daughter marrying Pranay, a dalit.

Rao, who had earlier offered Pranay Rs 3 crore to let Amrutha go, later tried to get her to abort the child. When that, too, failed, he decided to eliminate his son-in-law.

Rao had reportedly agreed to pay Rs 1 crore to the assailaints.

Pranay and Amrutha had been friends since their school days in

Miryalaguda

. Both joined an engineering course in Hyderabad later, albeit in different colleges, and dropped out after their romance made it impossible for them to continue with their education.