Police in Hyderabad have arrested a couple for murdering their daughter-in-law, M Dalli, who had been missing for 40 days. Her husband, M Suresh, reported her disappearance and suspected his parents, Tulasi and Ananthi. They confessed to poisoning her and then attacking her with a stone before burying her body due to a longstanding grudge.
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