India, Dec. 23 -- A woman in Telangana's Hyderabad told relatives and police that her husband collapsed in the washroom and died of a heart attack. But as investigators began piecing together the evidence, they found a version of events that was completely different.

The 36-year-old had repeated the account to relatives and even lodged a complaint with the Medipally police, saying her husband, who was a logistics manager at a private university was found unconscious at home and declared dead at Government Hospital in Malkajgiri, news agency PTI reported.

As officers examined the body, they noticed injuries on the cheek and neck of the 45-year-old that did not align with a sudden medical death. The marks prompted investigators to dig dee...