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The woman had divorced the accused and had a second marriage a year ago.
The man barged into his former wife’s residence and stabbed her multiple times with a knife, killing her. (Representative Image)
Upset that a domestic violence case she had filed had stopped him from going back to Canada, where he worked at an IT company, a man allegedly broke into his ex-wife’s house in Hyderabad and murdered her.
The man also blamed the 29-year-old woman, who was also employed at an IT firm, for his mother’s death.
The incident happened in an area under Vanasthalipuram police station limits when the accused entered the victim’s residence when she was alone and allegedly attacked her with a knife, resulting in her instant death.
The police reached the spot after receiving information and found the accused hiding in a room of the house. Following this, he was taken into custody.
The woman had divorced the accused and had a second marriage a year ago, news agency PTI informed. Both the accused and the victim were stated to be in their 30s.
The accused married the woman in 2022. The wedding was held in India, and the man later moved to Canada for his job, where the woman joined him. However, there were some differences between the couple and she later returned to India.
She subsequently filed a domestic violence case against him in Maharashtra, an official was quoted by NDTV.
The couple later got divorced in 2024, and the woman married again in April 2025.
In March 2025, the man returned to India after his mother’s death. An official reported that a look-out circular had been issued against him due to a domestic violence case, leading to the suspension of his passport, preventing his return to Canada.
He was unemployed, residing at his parents’ home in Telangana’s Peddapalli district.
The police stated that the man believed he and his family had suffered mentally because of his ex-wife and felt his mother’s death was a result of this distress.
Determined to kill his ex-wife, he found her address through her social media accounts and moved to Hyderabad two months ago, staying in a hostel.
On Wednesday, he went to the woman’s apartment with a bag containing two knives, a drilling machine, and a can with five litres of petrol, as reported by NDTV.
He forced his way into his former wife’s residence, entered the room she was in, and locked it from the inside. He then fatally stabbed her multiple times in the head.
At the time, the woman’s mother-in-law was on the balcony. Family members contacted the police, who arrived at the scene to find the man had poured petrol around the room and locked himself in the toilet.
February 19, 2026, 06:10 IST
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