Mangaluru: The third additional district and sessions court  have been awarded life term imprisonment for a woman and her paramour for murdering the woman’s husband in 2016.

Ashwini alias Mamata from Moodbidri Kukkudakatte Moodukonaje, and Anand Mera from the same village, guilty of the charges.  Ashwini, a resident of Kukkudakatte in Moodbidri had married Jayaraj in 2014 but had kept contact with her lover, Anand Mera, from her native village even after marriage.

When Jayaraj learnt of the affair he and Ashwini quarrelled many times. On September 13, 2016, Ashwini and Anand murdered Jayaraj when he came to visit Ashwini at her native house.

The duo threw the dead body stuffed in a gunny bag and tied to a boulder into a well.

Later, Ashwini registered a missing complaint of Jayaraj with the police and Anand made two of his associates call Jayaraj’s mother to tell her that Jayaraj will be working with them to clear a loan he was not able to repay.

Police learnt of the whole crime after they got hold of Anand’s two associates.