Hyderabad man kills wife, tells relatives she died of Covid-19

HYDERABAD: Days after the sensational murder of female software engineer in Tirupati, where in her husband tried to project it as a death due to Covid-19, in a similar case an auto driver was arrested by Rachakonda Police on Saturday since he too killed his wife and buried her by claiming that she died of coronavirus.
Rachakonda Police said that this incident took place under Vanasthalipuram police station limits. On June 24, the police got a complaint from Dhanavath Bujji claiming that she suspected that her 21-year-old daughter Ramavath Kavitha’s death on June 18, might not be natural.
Kavitha’s husband Ramavath Vijay informed her parents that she died of coronavirus. But the family members got suspicious when Vijay asked them not to touch his wife’s dead body since she had Covid-19. Despite that her mother and few other relatives touched Kavitha’s body and cried by falling on her body.
"The persons who cried by falling on Kavitha, none of them were infected with coronavirus. This became a reason for suspicion and her mother lodged a complaint," Rachakonda police commissioner Mahesh Bhagwat said.
Officials said that Kavitha’s body was exhumed and later post mortem examination was performed. Meanwhile, police during the investigation came to know that the victim tested negative after taking the Covid-19 one week before she was murdered.
The accused, when he was grilled, he confessed that she did not die of coronavirus and it was he who smothered her to death. "He killed her by smothering her to death using a pillow while she was asleep. Later, he shifted her body into his auto rickshaw and it was taken to his native place, Nalgonda district, and completed the rituals by burying her dead body. He informed her family members that she died of coronavirus,’’ police said.
When questioned him about the motive behind the murder, the accused said that he suspected her character and hence he killed her. The accused was arrested and he was being produced before a magistrate.