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Wife and Lover Charged in Staged Heart Attack Murder
9 Nov
Summary
- Wife and lover arrested for murdering husband.
- Couple staged death as a heart attack to conceal murder.
- Post-mortem revealed suffocation, leading to arrest.
Electronics City police in Bengaluru have arrested a wife and her lover for allegedly conspiring to murder her husband and staging the death as a heart attack. Anitha, 36, and Madhusudhan Reddy, 46, are accused of killing Upendra, 41, on October 12, 2026. Upendra's brother initially reported his death as a cardiac arrest following a fall in the bathroom.
However, a post-mortem examination indicated that Upendra died of suffocation. Police launched an investigation, which revealed Anitha and Reddy were having an affair and Upendra had warned them to end it. Viewing Upendra as an obstacle, they allegedly murdered him by strangulation and suffocation.
To cover their tracks, the accused fabricated the story of an accidental fall and heart attack. Reddy confessed his involvement during questioning, leading to Anitha's arrest on November 6, 2026. The initial Unnatural Death Report case has been converted to a murder case, and both suspects are remanded to seven days of police custody.
