A 30-year-old woman from Siddipet district of Telangana who allegedly got her estranged husband, a transgender person, murdered using contract killers, was arrested along with the two men hired to do the crime, police said on Sunday.
The woman, who allegedly offered Rs 18 lakh for the ‘supari’ (contract) to kill her 35-year-old husband, paid Rs 4.6 lakh to two hired persons and got him killed on December 11 last year.
Following an investigation, police, who had first reported a case of suspicious death, detained the woman and the two hired killers on Saturday on charge of murder.
The couple married in 2014 and had a child in 2015, according to a police officer, adding that the husband had undergone a surgery to change his gender. The man become a woman in 2019 and since then two have been living apart.
The transgender person, subsequently started ‘harassing’ the woman, who worked as an accountant in a private school, police said.
The transgender person used to go to the woman’s workplace and create ‘nuisance’ because the woman had been seeking maintenance from the estranged husband for her child and herself, said the official.
The school management removed the woman from her job over the nuisance. Angered over it, the woman decided to kill her estranged husband.
As per the plan, the contract killers made the transgender person drink beer and later smothered her to death with pillows in her sleep, police added.
(with inputs from PTI)
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