A man from Telangana working as an engineer in the US has been arrested for the murder of his wife, nine months after she was found dead on the bathroom floor of their Washington home.
Tried to stage crime scene: Police
Raajitha Sabbineni, 27, was found dead in her apartment in October 2025. Reports quoting police said that Avinash Narne, 30, first strangled Raajitha and then staged the crime scene to evade suspicion.
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Police arrested him after conducting an extensive probe into the case and when all signs led to him.
‘Secret relationship’
Reports quoting police also say Avinash was having an affair with another woman in India.
According to the charging document cited by local media, Avinash admitted that he sent a photo of Raajitha’s body to his girlfriend the day after her death and spoke to her four times the day he allegedly killed his wife.
Charging documents said that he was in a “secret relationship” with the other woman even before his marriage to Raajitha, and the same continued after marriage.
Victim strangled to death
The couple reportedly tied the knot in June 2025, and started living together a month later.
On October 2025, Avinash allegedly killed her and called the Bellevue Police, saying that on returning from outside, he found that his wife had locked herself in the bathroom and was not responding. Police, on breaking the door open had found Raajitha lying on the bathroom floor. She was pronounced dead.
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Post-mortem found that Raajitha had died from asphyxia due to strangulation.
Even though evidence pointed towards Avinash, he tried to present different alibis to evade arrest.
How cops zeroed in on Avinash
He told police that on the day of Raajitha’s death, he was out running errands and returned around 40 minutes later. It was then that he found Raajitha locked inside the bathroom and dialed the police after getting no response from her.
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Police, however, said that digital evidence proved that no one else had entered the house that day.
After examining data from the apartment’s front-door security and smart-lock system, police found that Avinash had briefly left the resident, but no one person entered the house.
Avinash is in police custody on USD 5 million and could face life imprisonment under Washington state law if he is convicted.
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