'Slipped, suffered heart attack': B'luru woman, her lover arrested for killing husband

(L-R) Madhusudhan Reddy, Anitha, Upendra.

BENGALURU: Electronics City police have arrested two persons, including a man's wife and her lover, for allegedly conspiring to murder him and staging his death as a heart attack.

The arrested persons have been identified as Anitha, 36, and her lover, Madhusudhan Reddy, 46. The deceased was identified as Upendra, 41.

According to police, Upendra's brother, a resident of Doddathoguru on Bettadasanapura Main Road, within the jurisdiction of Electronics City police station, lodged a complaint on October 12, 2026, stating that his elder brother had slipped and fallen while going to the bathroom and died of cardiac arrest. Based on the complaint, police initially registered an Unnatural Death Report (UDR) case.

However, after receiving the post-mortem examination report, police learnt that Upendra had died of suffocation. They began investigating the death from various angles and gathered crucial information that raised suspicions about the circumstances surrounding it.

On November 5, police summoned Reddy for questioning in connection with the case. During interrogation, he confessed to being in a relationship with Anitha. According to police, Upendra had learnt about their relationship and warned both of them against continuing it.

Police said that, considering Upendra an obstacle to their relationship, the two conspired to eliminate him. In the early hours of October 12, they allegedly murdered him by strangling him and suffocating him by covering his nose and mouth.

To conceal the crime, the accused allegedly fabricated a story that Upendra had slipped and fallen while going to the bathroom and died of cardiac arrest, misleading his family and others.

Following Reddy's interrogation, police detained Anitha from her residence in Doddathoguru on November 6. During questioning, she also confessed to her involvement in the murder, police said.

With the murder conspiracy coming to light, police converted the initially registered UDR case into a murder case. Both accused were produced before a court and subsequently remanded to seven days of police custody for further interrogation.