Woman arrested on charges of killing her husband with lover

Authorities have identified the woman as Nandini Bai, considering her a suspect in the case related to the death of her 30-year-old husband, Venkata Nayak. The police have also taken her lover, Nitish Kumar, into custody.

As per the police account, Nandini invited Nitish to her residence on Tuesday, January 9, while Venkata was away. However, Venkata unexpectedly returned home, discovering them in the act, leading to a confrontation between Nandini and Venkata.

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Woman tried to play clever by projecting the crime as a case of heart attack

In between the quarrel, Nandini and Nitish hit the victim with a stone, leading to his death. They dragged his body near the toilet and placed the stone there. She then called the police and claimed that her husband had collapsed near the toilet and died after banging his head on the sharp-edged stone.

The police initially registered a case of unnatural death. However, the post-mortem report revealed that it was a case of murder and preliminary investigations also confirmed that it was not a natural death.

The police detained Nandini and she confessed to the crime after she was interrogated. The probe also revealed that Nandini and Nitesh were childhood friends and hailed from the Sathya Sai region in Andhra Pradesh.

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They developed an affair and Nitesh would come from Andhra Pradesh to meet Nandini whenever her husband was away.