Overview
- Police arrested K. Venkatesh on Friday after he allegedly set his wife, Triveni, on fire in their Nallakunta home on December 24, with officers saying he was picked up in Ameenpur within a day and remanded to custody.
- Investigators said he consumed alcohol, bought petrol from a nearby outlet, and poured it on Triveni as the couple’s children were present in the house.
- The couple’s six-year-old daughter sustained minor burns after he tried to push her toward the flames, while neighbors rushed the victims to Gandhi Hospital, where Triveni died.
- A murder case under Section 103(1) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita was registered on a complaint by Triveni’s father, and her body was handed to relatives after a post-mortem.
- Family and police accounts describe years of accusations and abuse, a recent separation, and her return after assurances, following a love marriage and a move to Hyderabad for work.