Overview

• Police in Hunsur have arrested Sallapuri and a court has remanded her in judicial custody, according to The Hindu.
• Investigators say she confessed to poisoning her husband, Venkataswamy, to fraudulently claim the government payout for deaths from wild animal attacks.
• Her missing-person complaint alleging a tiger dragged him away prompted a joint police–forest search that turned up no pugmarks or other signs of an attack.
• Officers followed faint drag marks at the property to a cow-dung pit near the couple’s home in Chikkahejjuru, where they discovered the partially buried body.
• Forensic steps are underway, with CCTV review and dog squad and fingerprint teams deployed as police build the case for charges.