Hyderabad, Aug. 17 -- A Hyderabad resident was convicted with life imprisonment and fined Rs 25,000 by a Rajendranagar court on Monday, August 17, for murdering his wife, dismembering her body, and attempting to destroy the evidence in a fire.

On July 4, 2016, Rupesh Kumar Mohanani, aged 45 years, was found near his Ford SUV with his minor daughter while his wife's dismembered body was burning some distance away in the Madanapally village. Upon noticing smoke rising from the area, residents immediately alerted the local police. During the initial questioning, Mohanani disclosed that the remains belonged to his wife, Cynthia Vechel, a Congolese national whom he had married in 2008.

According to the Shamshabad police's investigation, tens...