Woman gets husband killed, pays gang with wedding ring

In a shocking yet bizarre incident, a newly-married woman was arrested in Andhra Pradesh's Vizianagaram district on Tuesday on charges of murdering her husband.

She had earlier accused three men of killing her 30-year-old husband during a robbery. Later, the police informed that the woman had hired a group of people to kill her husband and paid them off with her wedding ring, reports said.

The woman, identified as Y Saraswathi (22) had filed a complaint at Garugubilli police station of Parvathipuram sub-division on Monday saying three unidentified men had killed her husband and robbed her bridal jewellery. Following which, the police carried out a thorough investigation to nab the accused.

After an investigation, the police found out that Saraswathi with her lover, an unemployed B Tech graduate, had planned the whole scene to kill her husband. Reports said that the lover had hired a local thug who was also a B Tech graduate for executing the killing.

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

Saraswati and her husband, on Monday, were returning from a motorcycle service station when the killers started following them, as planned, and attacked the husband. Saraswati tried to initially stop them, as an act, before they hit him with an iron rod which killed him on the spot.