Husband held for strangling pregnant wife

Hyderabad:A man attempted to cover up his wife’s murder by trying to set her body on fire, hoping to make her death appear accidental. However, postmortem reports revealed that the woman had been strangled. The accused, Sachin, 21, was arrested by Kushaiguda police on Monday and remanded.

Sachin’s wife, Sneha Tagore, 21, who was seven months pregnant, had recently reconciled with him after a period of living separately due to frequent disputes. The couple had married in 2022 and were staying in a rented room in Nagarjunanagar, Kushaiguda.

On January 16, Sachin attacked Sneha while she was sleeping, strangling her with a cloth. Sneha and her unborn baby died as a result. Afterward, he opened a gas cylinder, hoping to ignite a fire in the house.

When Sneha’s mother arrived to see her daugther, she found her daughter lifeless and alerted the police. A suspicious death case was registered, and the postmortem revealed the cause of death to be strangulation. Sachin was subsequently arrested.