'My Mother Died Due To Mental Agony Caused By Her': Why Hyderabad Man Stabbed His Ex-Wife To Death

Last Updated:February 20, 2026, 14:16 IST

The accused decided to eliminate his former wife and managed to locate her residential address through her social media account and came to Hyderabad.

A man from Hyderabad barged into her former wife’s house and allegedly stabbed her to death.

The accused, Devarakonda Mahesh, was arrested on Thursday and remanded to judicial custody by a local court.

Mahesh, who tied the knot with the victim in 2022 and got divorced in 2024, barged into the victim’s residence on Wednesday. After noticing her in a room, Mahesh locked it from inside and allegedly stabbed her multiple times on her head with a knife, resulting in her instant death. Based on the complaint lodged by the victim’s second husband, a murder case was registered against the accused.

After their divorce, the victim had a second marriage in April 2025 and was pregnant.

The accused, who worked as a software employee in Canada, returned to India from Canada in March 2025 following the death of his mother.

The police said the accused bore a grudge against his ex-wife as she had lodged domestic violence case against him and over her remarriage.

As the case was pending, a Look-out Circular was issued against him and his visa got rejected, police said, adding he was unable to go back to Canada since then and was presently residing in his native place in Peddapalli district of Telangana, without any work.

Though the case was finalised later, he felt that he and his family faced mental suffering due to the case. He also felt that his mother’s death was due to the mental agony caused by the estranged wife, police said.

The accused decided to eliminate his former wife and managed to locate her residential address through her social media account and came to Hyderabad and “killed" her, police added.

(With inputs from PTI)

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