Man held for killing wife

Vijayawada: The Machavaram police on Tuesday arrested one person accused of murdering his wife suspecting her fidelity. DCP Gajarao Bhupal addressing a media conference here on Tuesday said that Vanjarapu Bhujanga Rao, a resident of Mogalrajpuram, had disputes with his wife V Lata for the past few years. He is working as a tailor at Gayatri Nagar. His wife, too, was working in a tailoring shop at VMC Colony.

The husband was suspecting fidelity of his wife and decided to eliminate her. He purchased a bottle of petrol on January 27 and attacked his wife and set afire near the burial ground at Sunnapu Battela Centre.

The injured woman was shifted to a hospital and died on February 4. Machavaram police arrested the husband and produced him before the media. The couple married 16 years ago and has two children a girl was studying Intermediate and son studying seventh standard.