A woman allegedly murdered her husband in Kothagudem, Khammam, and tried to pass it off as a suicide.
According to sources, the woman conspired with her lover to murder him. Upon it being discovered, she allegedly claimed that he hanged himself to death, which claim the villagers found dubious, as the had heard rumours of her ill-treatment of her husband.
The viallagers tied her to a tree and beat her, and then handed her over to the police. The police have lodged a case against her, and are now investigating it.