A shocking incident of betrayal, a would-be bride colluded hands with her lover to kill her future husband to avoid the marriage has rocked Telangana.
The would be groom Yakaiah, who was burnt by girl’s lover in an attack a week ago succumbed to his injuries on Saturday in Gandhi Hospital Secunderabad.
The police have arrested the partners in crime Aruna and Balaswamy.
According to the police Aruna, a resident of Madaram village under Raghunathapally mandal of Janagam district had an affair with Balaswamy of the same village. But her family had recently got her engaged to Yakaiah, a resident of nearby Kanchanapally village.
Unhappy with the proposal Aruna and her boyfriend conspired to eliminate Yakaiah and his father Samuel.
After attacking Samuel twice, the duo targeted Yakaiah on the night of February 18. “As per the plan Aruna
made a phone call to Yakaiah in the night and asked him to come out of his home to meet her.
As soon as he came out, Balaswamy who was lying in wait poured petrol on him and set him on fire”, police said.
Hearing his screams other family members came out and his mother was also injured while trying to douse the fire. Balaswamy was rushed to Hyderabad with 60% burns where he died today.
This is latest in series of shocking sex related crimes in Andhra Pradesh starting with the “face swap” case in Nagarkurnool district where in wife killed her husband and tried to bring her paramour in his place by making him under go plastic surgery. But the game plan foiled. Both the wife and her boyfriend are now in jail.
In another incident in Hyderabad a wife brought her lover from Bihar in a flight to the city and got her husband eliminated as he had become an obstacle in their illicit relations.