An IT consultant accused of orchestrating a plot to wipe out his ex-wife and her entire family using nine hired contract killers and arsenic-laced curry is fighting a legal battle to avoid extradition to India.
Ajith Kumar Mupparapu, 46, was living in Berkshire with oncologist Dr Sirisha Muttavarapu but she filed for divorce after five years of marriage in 2022.
Mupparapu allegedly hired nine contract killers from his home to kill his ex-wife and her extended family in Hyderabad between January and August 2023.
He is accused of killing his former mother-in-law, Uma Maheshwari, 60, who died on 5 July, 2023, nine days
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