Andhra Pradesh murder: Police say wife and her lover killed 26-year-old Tejeswar

Aishwarya, 23, from Kurnool, married Tejeswar, a 26-year-old land surveyor and dancer in Telangana's Gadwal, on May 18, after convincing him that she was in love with him.

A month later, the husband went missing.

The Telangana Police then detained the woman and her mother, Sujatha, after Tejeswar's family alleged Aishwarya's role in the murder.

Within a month of her wedding, Aishwarya had conspired with her lover, a married bank manager, to hire three men to get her husband killed, the police found.

Her mother, Sujatha, worked at the same Non-Banking Financial Corporation (NBFC).

Tirumal Rao, a bank manager in Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh, had even paid Rs 2 lakh advance to the three people to eliminate Tejeswar, Jogulamba Gadwal district SP T Srinivas Rao told NDTV.

Eight suspects, including Aishwarya and Rao, have been arrested. Sujatha, who had preliminary knowledge of the offence, and Rao's father, a retired head constable, are among those arrested.

Rao had presumed that the victim would be reported missing and his body would never be found.

He reportedly had an excape plan by booking tickets for himself and Aishwarya to flee to Ladakh.

The police said Rao had earlier planned to eliminate his wife too, whom he married eight years ago, as the couple did not have any children.

He is said to have even had an affair with Aishwarya's mother, Sujatha, who worked as a sweeper at his bank. Aishwarya had replaced her mother at the job during her absence, and this is when the two developed a relationship.

Her mother had reportedly discouraged this relationship and pressured Aishwarya to marry Tejeswar. Her marriage to Tejeswar was fixed for February 13 this year, but she reportedly went incognito and later broke off her wedding.

However, the woman later convinced Tejeswar saying she had gone missing as her mother was unable to pay dowry and insisted that she was ready to marry him. He agreed to marry her against his family's advice over rumours of her affair with Rao. On May 18, they tied the knot.

Tejeswar's murder surfaced weeks after Raja Raghuvanshi's killing by his wife Sonam and her lover Raj Kushwaha during their honeymoon in Meghalaya last month.