Police Stop Funeral After Wife Suspected in Gulf Returnee’s Death
The deceased was identified as Erpula Narsaiah, a Gulf migrant who had returned to his native village about a month ago to attend his son’s wedding.
Karimnagar: Police on Saturday exposed an alleged attempt by a woman and her lover to pass off the murder of her Gulf returnee-husband as a natural death, after intercepting his funeral procession at Rajannapet in Rajanna Sircilla district.
Erpula Narsaiah, 55, who had returned to his village from the Gulf about a month ago to attend his son’s wedding, was found dead on Friday night. His wife Erpula Vajravva, 53, told his family that he had died of a sudden cardiac arrest. That has been disproved now
As the funeral procession was proceeding towards the cremation ground, villagers noticed suspicious dark marks around Narsaiah’s neck and visible injuries on his body. Suspecting foul play, they alerted the Yellareddypet police.
Sub-inspector Rahul Reddy and his team halted the procession, and shifted the body to a local hospital for post-mortem examination. It was determined that Narsaiah had been strangled to death. Vajravva was taken into custody for questioning. Narsaiah is survived by two sons and a daughter.
Preliminary investigation revealed that Narsaiah had allegedly caught his wife with another man from Kancharla on Friday. A confrontation followed, during which the duo allegedly strangled Narasaiah to death using a rope. The identity of the lover is yet to be determined.
