Indian woman found murdered in Australia; suspect husband flies home with son

IN what could be a case of domestic violence, a 36-year-old woman from the southern Indian city of Hyderabad was found murdered in Australia and her husband, who allegedly killed her, flew back to the city and handed over their child to the parents of the former.

Chaithanya Madhagani was found dead in a wheelie bin near a countryside road in Buckley in the south-eastern Australian province of Victoria on Saturday (9). She lived with her husband and son in Australia.

Madhagani worked as a food safety compliance expert who has been described as "exceptional" by one of her colleagues. She was professionally called Tanya, an ABC News report said.

Chaithanya Madhagani, a woman from India's Hyderabad, found murdered in Australia. (Picture: X)

Janine Curll, regulatory manager of Ashbury Global where the deceased woman worked for three years, told ABC News that she was "a charismatic, confident, warm, and empathetic woman".

Bandari Lakshma Reddy, local lawmaker of Uppal, where Madhagani's home is located in Hyderabad, said he met her parents on Monday (11) after getting information about the tragic incident, news agency Press Trust of India reported.

The legislator told PTI that at the request of the woman's parents, he wrote a letter to the Indian external ministry to bring the woman's body to Hyderabad. He also informed India's tourism minister G Kishan Reddy, who also hails from the southern state of Telangana of which Hyderabad is the capital, about it.

Reddy added that according to the information provided by the woman's parents, their son-in-law "confessed" to killing their daughter.

The Victoria Police in a statement dated March 9 said, "Homicide Squad detectives are investigating after a deceased person was located in Buckley, near Winchelsea. Officers located the deceased person on Mount Pollock Road about midday."

A second crime scene has been established at a residential address on Mirka Way, Point Cook, and is believed to be connected to the homicide, it said, adding the investigators are treating the death as suspicious.

At this stage in the investigation, it is believed the parties involved are known to one another and the offender may have fled overseas, the statement said.

(With PTI inputs)