A 29-year-old techie was murdered in cold blood by her ex-husband in Hyderabad on Wednesday. He allegedly stabbed her repeatedly in the head.
According to a PTI report citing a preliminary investigation, the man harbored a grudge against his ex-wife as her domestic violence case against him prevented him from returning to Canada where he was working in an IT firm.
The defendant, aged 30, also held her responsible for his mother’s death.
The couple married in 2022 and divorced each other in 2024. The victim had a second marriage in April 2025, police said.
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According to the victim’s current husband, she was three months pregnant. However, the post-mortem report is awaited and the police have yet to confirm the details.
Why did they break up?
According to the police, the accused went to Canada after getting married in India and the deceased soon joined them.
However, within five days of her stay with the accused, the technician returned to India and filed a criminal complaint against him for domestic violence.
“Some differences arose between the couple and after staying with him for five days, she later returned to India and subsequently filed a domestic violence case against him in Maharashtra,” the police said.
In March 2025, the accused returned to India from Canada after the death of his mother. But a circular was issued against him for the case and his passport was suspended.
As this prevented him from returning to Canada, he lived at his native place in Peddapalli, Telangana without any work.
Why did he kill her?
According to the police, the accused felt that he and his family were facing the deceased’s mental anguish due to the domestic violence case. He also felt that his mother’s death was due to mental agony caused by an estranged wife.
The accused developed a grudge against her and decided to eliminate her, police said.
What happened:
The accused found out his ex-wife’s residential address through her social media account. He came to Hyderabad two months ago and stayed in a hostel. Recently, he also “received” the victim’s apartment.
According to his plan, he came to the apartment with a bag containing, among other things, two knives, a drill, and a five-liter can of gasoline.
On the day of the incident, the man broke into the victim’s residence and soon after found her in the room. He locked the room from inside and allegedly stabbed her in the head several times, resulting in her instant death.
The woman’s mother-in-law was reportedly on the porch of the house at the time of the incident.
The man doused the room with gasoline and locked himself in the washroom when police arrived on the scene, alerted by the victim’s family and neighbors.
He threatened to set fire to the room with a lighter he had with him. However, after some persuasion, he came out of the washroom and was taken into custody, a police official said.
CCTV footage broadcast by local television stations showed the man carrying a bag and walking down the corridor of the flat.