2 min readHyderabadMay 22, 2026 04:52 PM IST
A 32-year-old man was detained in Telangana’s Khammam after his wife was found dead and an old video allegedly showing him brutally assaulting her surfaced.
After 28-year-old R Meenakshi was found hanging in the bedroom of her house in Gol Thanda in Thirumalayapalem on the outskirts of Khammam town on Friday morning, her family members alleged that her husband, R Shivaji, beat her to death and was trying to make it appear as suicide. The two have a child together.
The woman’s relatives flocked to the Thirumalayapalem police station, demanding that Shivaji be charged with Meenakshi’s murder. They alleged that he had been eyeing the life insurance policy he had purchased for his wife and that he regularly assaulted and harassed her.
On Friday morning, shortly after her body was found, a video surfaced showing Shivaji purportedly hitting a bound Meenakshi with a belt as she pleaded in agony and their child cried in the background.
A police officer said it was an old video allegedly recorded by one of Meenakshi’s relatives, but it was kept hidden after family members intervened and a compromise was reached, with Shivaji allegedly promising not to assault her again. However, according to the complaint filed with police, he continued to harass her physically and mentally.
Thirumalayapalem Police Station in-charge Inspector V Srinivas they were waiting for a post-mortem report. “He definitely beat her up. We have brought him to the police station for questioning. We will modify the FIR once the post-mortem reveals if it is suicide or murder,” he said.
