In Hyderabad’s Saroornagar, a city court remanded a temple priest to judicial detention on Saturday for the murder of a 30-year-old lady with whom he was having an extramarital affair.

The Maisamma temple priest, Ayyagari Venkata Sura Sai Krishna, who was detained on Friday, appeared before a magistrate on Saturday morning.

He was sent to Cherlapally Jail after being remanded to judicial custody.

The 37-year-old accused, a married father of two, was having an extramarital relationship with Apsara, and a regular devotee of the temple.

The police discovered that he killed the woman because she was urging him to marry her because she was pregnant and was carrying his child.

On Friday, almost a week after the woman was brutally murdered by the priest and her body was put in a manhole, the horrifying episode was made public.

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The priest killed the woman in Sultanpalli and put her body in a manhole in the Saroornagar neighbourhood, according to the police.

Police said that on June 3, he drove Apsara to Sultanpalli in the Shamshabad mandal outside of the city.

The body of the woman was dumped in a manhole behind the temple in Saroornagar after the priest killed her by hitting her in the head with a boulder, packing her body in a bag, and keeping it in the car.

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After dropping his relative Apsara off at Shamshabad on June 3, the accused filed a complaint with the police station at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA), alleging that she had been missing since that date.

He told the police that Apsara ceased returning calls on June 4 and that her phone was later turned off. Apsara was scheduled to travel to Bhadrachalam with her friends that day. The police opened an investigation after filing a case. The investigating officers discovered that the complainant’s information did not line up with the technical evidence, such as phone data.

The police inspected Sai Krishna’s mobile signals and CCTV recordings. He was arrested, and when questioned, he admitted to the crime.

The deceased was taken out of the manhole and taken for an autopsy.