Hyderabad: A 45-year-old housewife allegedly killed her husband in Nallakunta in the wee hours of Saturday. Police said the housewife, Vijayalaxmi, stabbed her husband Gangadhar with a knife while he was asleep and later surrendered at the police station. Vijayalaxmi said that her husband suspected her fidelity and used to trouble her over that continuously.
Police said that M. Gangadhar, 48, and M. Vijayalaxmi, 45, from Nizamabad, got married nearly 30 years ago. Gangadhar was working as a labourer and Vijayalaxmi was a housewife. The couple has two daughters who are married.
Ten years ago the couple came to Hyderabad and were staying at a rented house at Narsimhanagar in Nallakunta. Vijaya-laxmi was working at a nearby school as a helper, but Gangadhar who was addicted to alcohol, was not working.
Meanwhile, Gangadhar started suspecting her fidelity and harassed her everyday and also used to assault her severely. On Friday night he came home heavily drunk and started beating Vijayalaxmi.
“Around 3 am she took a vegetable knife, stabbed him in the abdomen as he was sleeping and killed him,” Nallakunta inspector V. Yadagiri Reddy said. Later, she came to the police station and surrendered. Based on her confession a murder case was registered and she was produced before court.
Man held for extortion bid
CCS police arrested a man on Saturday for trying to extort money from the joint sub-registrar of RR district. The man, M. Vamshi Krishna, claimed to be an ACB officer and demanded Rs 2.5 lakh from the official.
He threatened to conduct ACB raids if money was not paid. The man used to phone the sub registrar and threaten him. Krishna was earlier involved in stealing 40 tolas of gold from his uncle’s house at Yousufguda.
