Hyderabad, March 25 A 22-year-old man was arrested, and a minor girl, whom he had married, was apprehended for allegedly murdering the latter's mother in May last year and burying her body at her residence here after she opposed their relationship, police said on Wednesday.
The body of the 40-year-old woman, who had opposed the relationship of her young daughter, as she was a minor (17 years old) and he belonged to a different caste, was exhumed from the deceased person's house in the Kowkoor area based on the man's confession, they said.
The man, who was a driver, and the woman's younger daughter had planned to kill her as she was continuously opposing their relationship, a release from the Malkajgiri Police Commissionerate said.
According to their plan, he stabbed her chest on May 12 last year with a knife while the minor girl helped him. The woman died on the spot, it said.
They wrapped the body, hid it under a bed, cleaned the scene, and later buried it inside the house using cement and sand, police said.
Later in October 2025, the woman's elder daughter, in a complaint filed at the Jawaharnagar Police station, stated that her mother, who was a maid servant, had gone to work on May 12, 2025, and had not returned home, and that her phone was switched off. The police registered a case of a missing woman and investigated the matter.
Asked about the delay in filing the complaint, a police official said that the elder daughter had stated that she had thought that her mother, who was not staying with her husband, may have been living with another man.
It was during the course of the investigation that the man was brought to the police station on suspicion and interrogated. He confessed that he had become acquainted with the deceased woman's younger daughter in December 2023 and had developed a relationship with her, and the woman had opposed that, police said.
The man and the girl continued their relationship even as he was arrested twice in October 2024 and January 2025 after POCSO cases were registered against him based on the complaint of the deceased, police said.
Due to the woman's continuous opposition to their relationship, the duo killed her in May 2025, police added.
They misled the woman's elder daughter by claiming that floor repairs were carried out due to a rat problem, even as they destroyed the woman's mobile phone.
The duo continued living together, and after the girl became pregnant, he married her in January this year. She gave birth to a male child about two months ago, police said.
Based on the evidence and confession of the accused, the missing case was altered into a murder case, and sections of the BNS dealing with the destruction of evidence were invoked, police said.
The man was arrested, and the girl who was involved in the crime was apprehended, police added.
