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Rachakonda: Rachakonda police are consulting experts from various parts of the country to solve the case of an ex-army man (army man ) allegedly killing his wife, chopping her body into pieces and boiling it in a pressure cooker. The officers are facing a challenging situation as they are yet to recover the body parts, though the suspect Gurumurthy has already been arrested. Addressing a press conference, Rachakonda Police Commissioner G Sudheer Babu said the case is still being treated as a “missing person case”.
“She (wife) has not been seen for some time. So a case has been registered. Since the woman is missing and such information came to us later, we are working on it. No body has been found yet. So there is a different way of investigating the case,” the police officer said. “It is a missing person case at the moment. We are investigating the matter and involving experts from not only our state but also other parts of the country,” he said.
Husband accused of murder
The senior official declined to divulge details of the case and said police teams were in the process of collecting evidence. A police official had earlier said the woman’s parents had raised suspicion on her husband. Some residents of the building in New Venkateswara Colony here where the victim’s family lived have vacated their flats or moved out temporarily after the heinous crime allegedly took place in their residential complex. The suspect, Gurumurthy (39), is an ex-serviceman and is currently employed as a security guard at a defence establishment here.
There was a quarrel on January 16
The police had registered an FIR regarding the disappearance of a woman. According to the FIR, the wife had a quarrel with Gurumurthy on January 16 and she left the house without informing anyone. She did not return, following which the family lodged a complaint. Gurumurthy is a native of Prakasam district in Andhra Pradesh. The couple has two children.
