India, July 9 -- An Indian engineer living in the United States has been charged with the murder of his wife, nearly nine months after she was found dead inside the couple's apartment in Washington.

Investigators allege that 30-year-old Avinash Narne, originally from Telangana, strangled his wife, 27-year-old Raajitha Sabbineni, and attempted to stage the scene to avoid suspicion.

According to court documents cited by local media reports, Sabbineni had repeatedly complained that drinks prepared for her tasted unusually bitter. On the day of her death in October 2025, she allegedly told Narne that a smoothie he made tasted like "medicine" and "cough syrup," a report in US news outlet KING 5 said.

Police arrested Narne after an extensive...