A 32-year-old woman, Melanje Sukanya, was arrested at Malkajgiri police station in Hyderabad on Saturday, June 27, on charges of killing her husband Melanje John Prabhakaran. 

The couple was involved in a Rs 500 crore for money-laundering scam fraud in the neighboring state of Tamil Nadu.

According to the local news source, the couple (husband and wife) are from Tamil Nadu and were jointly accused in the scam uncovered by the Tamil Nadu Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in 2012. 

They were currently out on bail. They were also allegedly involved in as many as 32 fraud cases in Tamil Nadu. After the arrest, John Prabhakaran managed to obtain bail within a year, while Sukanya could not get bail and remained in prison from 2013 to 2018. After being released from jail, she could not find her husband.

Eventually, she managed to track him down, but he was living with another woman. 

Sukanya managed to drive her out but that did not sit too well with Prabhakaran. In retaliation, he hounded Sukanya out. But this might have not sat too well with her. He was found dead in suspicious circumstances at his rented home on Wednesday.

Reportedly, when police arrived at the spot, Sukanya was present and behaved in a suspect manner. Sukanya had at first told the police that he was suffering from paralysis and died in his sleep. But the police registered a suspicious death case, as they found there was some foul play.

Sukanya was interrogated, during which she confessed to killing Prabhakaran. She confessed that unable to bear his torture and angry at the fact that he was hounding her out for another woman, she killed him. Police have filed a case of ‘planned murder’, and she was produced before the court on Saturday and sent to Judicial custody.