A Canada-based IT professional reportedly broke into his ex-wife's apartment in Hyderabad and stabbed her to death in a vicious act of revenge. Driven by professional ruin and personal loss, the suspect blamed his ex-wife for his inability to return to his job in Canada and the subsequent death of his mother.
The accused and the victim married in 2022 and relocated to Canada soon thereafter. But irreconcilable differences quickly worsened the marriage. The woman returned to India and made a formal domestic violence claim against the techie in Maharashtra. The legal battle resulted in a formal divorce in 2024. After the divorce, the woman moved on and remarried in April 2025.
Meanwhile, the techie’s life spiraled downwards. His mother died, and in March 2025 he returned to India. Because of the ongoing domestic violence case, a Look-Out Circular (LOC) had been issued against him, and his passport was suspended by authorities. After becoming stranded in India and unable to return to his high-paying job in Canada, the man became unemployed and lived with his parents in the Peddapalli district of Telangana. He reportedly harbored a deep conviction that his ex-wife was responsible for his professional downfall and that the stress of the lawsuit resulted in the death of his mother.
A Coldly Planned Execution
In desperate and angry moods the man tracked his ex-wife over months. He ultimately tracked her down to her new place in Hyderabad on her social media accounts. Two months before the murder, he relocated to Hyderabad and stayed in a local hostel to observe her routine. On the day of the incident, the suspect entered the victim's apartment with:
- Two knives.
- A drilling machine
- Five liters of petrol.
He managed to enter the flat while the woman’s mother-in-law was on the balcony. He burst into the woman’s room, locked it from within and stabbed her repeatedly in the head.
The Standoff with Police
The victim’s second husband has alleged she was three months pregnant when she died. While the police await a post-mortem report which will confirm this, the brutality of the attack is undisputed. When family members alerted them to emergency help, a team arrived and found a terrifying scene.
The suspect had doused the room with petrol but locked himself in the bathroom and threatened to set the whole apartment on fire. The officers had to employ great force and strategic intervention to help coax him out of the bathroom without further loss of life. He was taken into custody, and later held in custody.
The Hyderabad police have registered a case of murder and are looking into the seriousness of the premeditation. This tragic incident shows how deeply domestic grievances can extend when motivated by loss of status and personal rivalries.
