Indian man kills his Congolese wife, cuts her body into pieces and set them ablaze

A businessman strangulated his wife,(pictured above) a
Congolese national, cut the body into
pieces and set them ablaze, police said on Tuesday, July 5.

Rupesh Kumar Mohanani, 36, was caught by
people in Madanpally village in Shamshabad on the outskirts of Hyderabad, India
after they found him pouring petrol on a bag containing the body pieces
and burning it.

 

The deceased has been identified as Cynthia
Vechel, 30, a club dancer in Congo. She had been living with her husband
in Hyderabad since 2012.

According to police, Mohanani and his wife
were having frequent quarrels over financial matters as he had suffered
losses in stock market. He was also suspicious that she was cheating on
him, claiming she frequently chatted with her male friends through
Facebook.

They had a fight in the early hours of Sunday July 4th
in their flat in Gachibowli. “In a fit of rage he throttled her neck and
killed her brutally. With an intent to screen out the evidence, he cut
the body of deceased into pieces with knife, a hammer and an axe, placed
them in a bag and left the house in a car to dispose the dead body,”
said Deputy Commissioner of Police (Shamshabad Zone) Sunpreet Singh.

Mohanani had gone to Congo in 1999 and was
working as a salesman in a departmental store. He used to visit a club
for entertainment, where he met Cynthia in 2006. They fell in love and
married in a church in 2008. The couple came to India in 2012 and had
applied for Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) card. They have an
eight-year-old daughter.

Police booked Rupesh for murder and for causing disappearance of
evidence. The Congolese Embassy in Delhi has been informed about the
incident, police said.