Woman hired gang to kill husband, paid them with wedding ring: cops

After preliminary probe, the police said Saraswati, in connivance with her lover Maddu Shiva, an unemployed B Tech graduate from Vizag, had planned to kill Gowrishankar. They said, Shiva had hired Saripalli Rama Krishna, a local thug with two attempt to murder cases against him, and two B Tech graduates Merugu Gopi and Gurrala Bangaruraju for executing the crime. They also hired an autorickshaw of Devarapalli Kishore.

The police said that Saraswati paid an advance of Rs 8,000 using an online money transfer mobile application, while Shiva paid Rs 10,000 in cash to the contract killers.

Vizianagaram SP G P Raju, said that on Monday, Gowrishankar, an electrical engineer working in Bellary, and Saraswati were returning from a motorcycle servicing showroom in Parvatipuram, when the contract killers followed the couple in the autorickshaw, as per the plan. They attacked Gowrishankar at a secluded spot, where Saraswati asked him to stop on some pretext, police said.

“They (the contract killers) hit him with an iron in the back of head and Gowrishankar collapsed and died on the spot,” said SP Raju. The police cracked the crime after an autorickshaw, with three people on board, were detained at a check post. “When they were taken to police station, they spilled the beans,” the SP said.

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