Wife kills her husband, then disfigures her boyfriend with acid after he agrees to have plastic surgery and steal her dead partner's identity in bizarre Face/Off murder plot
Woman named as Swathi, 28, 'hatched plot with lover Rajesh to kill her husband'
Police say she killed Sudhakar Reddy, 32, then burnt his body in Telangana, India
Swathi 'disfigured Rajesh and told Reddy's parents their son had been attacked'
But they became suspicious and police eventually arrested Swathi over the plot
A wife killed her husband then disfigured her boyfriend with acid after he agreed to have plastic surgery and steal her dead partner's identity, Indian police say.
The 28-year-old woman, named as Swathi, from Telangana, India, allegedly hatched the plot with lover Rajesh to kill her husband Sudhakar Reddy, 32.
Police say she then planned to make Rajesh undergo plastic surgery with the aim of eventually taking Sudhakar's identity.
The bizarre murder plot has echoes of the 1997 action movie Face/Off, starring John Travolta and Nicholas Cage, in which the pair undergo a medical procedure to swap faces.
A 28-year-old named as Swathi (right) , from Telangana, India, allegedly hatched a plot with lover Rajesh to kill her husband Sudhakar Reddy (left), 32. Police say she then planned to make Rajesh undergo plastic surgery with the aim of eventually taking Sudhakar's identity
In fact, local police say the couple took inspiration from the 2014 Indian film 'Yevadu' meaning 'who' where one of the characters has plastic surgery to assume the identity of another man.
Police officer DSP A Lakshminarayana told Gulf News that the husband had found out about his wife's affair a few days ago and that Swathi had become fearful of the fallout.
Police say the mother-of-two attacked Sudhakar, her husband of seven years, with a blunt object when he returned home on November 26.
Rajesh arrived and after killing Sudhakar, the pair, who started an affair two years ago, took him in a rolled up mat to a nearby forest and burnt the body, police say.
Two days later, Swathi disfigured Rajesh's face and body with acid - apparently with his blessing, police say.
The bizarre murder plot has echoes of the 1997 action movie Face/Off, starring John Travolta and Nicholas Cage, in which the pair undergo a medical procedure to swap faces +2
The bizarre murder plot has echoes of the 1997 action movie Face/Off, starring John Travolta and Nicholas Cage, in which the pair undergo a medical procedure to swap faces
She is then said to have told her husband's parents that their son had been injured by acid attackers.
Sudhakar's shocked family, believing their son was still alive, moved Rajesh to a hospital in Hyderabad and lodged a complaint to police about the apparent 'gang attack'.
But they soon became suspicious about the identity of the man they were caring for and police revised their investigation.
They are said to have raised the alarm after bringing mutton soup in to hospital - one of Sudhakar's favourites - only for the bogus patient to turn it down saying he was a vegetarian.
Officers took Rajesh's finger prints and compared them with details they held for for Sudhakar - and on receiving the results, immediately arrested Swathi.
She is then said to have admitted murdering her husband and they later recovered the body.
Rajesh has also been arrested and he will appear in court after leaving hospital